Oceans

Book with one poem and one bound heliogravure print; one unbound heliogravure print; published 2005; 56 pages; with drop-spine box

Dimensions

Book: 11 1/4 × 9 1/4 x 3/4 (28.6 × 23.5 × 1.9)

Drop-spine box: 12 x 9 3/4 x 1 1/4 (30.5 × 24.8 × 3.2)

Unbound print: 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 (26.7 × 21.6) (paper)

7 3/8 × 5 3/4 (18.7 × 14.6) (image)

Inscriptions

Numbered, and signed "Jim Dine" (on colophon)

Edition and proofs

30, 2 AP, 2 PP, 2 WP

Publisher

Tandem Press, Madison, WI

Printers and workshops

Joe Freye and Amy Newell at Tandem Press, Madison, WI; Priscilla Spitler at Hands On Bookbinding, Austin, TX (binding and drop-spine box)

Working period

September 2003-June 2004, published only in 2005

Printing order

Bound print:

1 Black, copper plate (heliogravure)

Unbound print:

1 Black, copper plate (heliogravure)

Hand colored with color pencil

Type and paper

Hand-written text by Jim Dine printed from lithographic polymer plates on Zerkall book paper, remaining text set in Palatino; bound heliogravure printed on Zerkall book paper; unbound heliogravure printed on Hahnemühle paper

Binding

Thread sewn hardcover, clothbound, with black Italian Cialux book cloth; hollow-spine case binding; slipcase with black Italian Cialux book cloth and white foil-blocked type