Honey B Hive

Creator

Jessica Spring
Special Collections, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of DesignFollow

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Creation Date

1-1-2013

Keywords

artists' books; honeycomb; beehives (apiaries)

Description

6 leaves : illustrations. Author statement from inside front cover. Limited edition of 66 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. "Honey B Hive is a sweet B specimen, displaying a hive full of Bs from the collection of vintage wood and metal type at Springtide Press. The book is handset, letterpress printed and bound between velour foil-stamped covers, all inspired by one very painful, then itchy, sting between the toes."--Colophon. Book consists of six leaves interleaved so when the book covers are spread open a honeycomb is formed. Letter "B" type specimens printed on yellow paper. "(in several computer languages, including Unicode, B=66)."--colophon.

RISD Fleet Library Catalog Record

https://librarycat.risd.edu/record=b1296949~S4

Press

Tacoma, Washington : Springtide Press, 2013.

Rights

©Tacoma, Washington : Springtide Press, 2013.

Materials / Techniques

letterpress printing; velours; paper

Measurements

6 x 18 cm