JOE D'AMBROSIO - NINETEEN YEARS AND COUNTING, A RETROSPECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1969-1988.

ARTIST'S BOOK by JOE D'AMBROSIO, Book Designer, Book Binder, Fine-Printer, Artist.

Self-published and self-made artist's book. First edition and only edition, 1989. Limited to 75 numbered copies and 10 artist proofs. This is copy #41. SIGNED and NUMBERED by D'Ambrosio on the title-page.

FINE and UNIQUE binding, the covers are marbled paper covered boards with a hinged leather spine and a burnished copper plate overlaid on the front; the dustjacket is gray denim cloth with marbled-paper trim; the endpapers are handmade marbled paper. An extraordinary binding.

The book is 6x9 inches and has 129 pages plus the Colophon page. 

There are 60 mounted color photographs illustrating D'Ambrosio's fine printing works, books and broadsides, which he produced from 1969-1988.

Condition: FINE book in NEAR FINE dustjacket that has light signs of edge and corner wear. A lovely copy.

Joe d'Ambrosio, b.1934 d.2009, was a fine-printer and book artist who first began designing unusual printed items in Chicago in 1969.