Palimpsest

Designer, concept: Peter Malutzki
Letterpress printer: Peter Malutzki
Categories: Bookwork / Altered Books, Letterpress Books, Poetry/Proses/Text Works, Small Press Books

Reference no.:L/Ket.I-Mal.P/97-06/04.02 Place/Shelf:3AL

Book title:	Palimpsest
Year made:	2004
Place made:	Germany
Original:	Yes
Edition: (No. in Edition)	40 (30)
Dimensions:	125 x 200
Binder:	bound by Ricarda Rau
Physical description:	paper case binding, hard cover
Medium:	found pages overprinted with text
Further information:
"This volume (like the volume BUCH) was assembled from spreads taken from other books, books in different languages. This already printed material is again overprinted with a text passage from Borges' 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' (in German translation) and color plates made with wood type letters, one plate for each letter of the alphabet." (p. 198) "If the term 'palimpsest' in the historical sense describes an old manuscript on which, through washing, scraping or rubbing the precious material—papyrus or vellum—the first script was removed to be able to write upon the material once more, this procedure is now interpreted anew, seen anew." (p. 100) (from the catalogue)

Designer, concept:	Peter Malutzki ()
Letterpress printer:	Peter Malutzki ()