Paul Eluard, Ralentir Travaux, 2003.

Ralentir Travaux is a Babel Fish translation of Eluard’s 1930 prose introduction
to a book of collaborative poems composed by Eluard, Andre Breton and Rene Char.
Eluard's text examines the role of the artist in the modern world.

Composed with QuarkXPress and printed on Kozo-shi digital paper

with an Epson Stylus 760 during December 2003.

The typeface is 3 point Skia. Because 3 point type will not display on a monitor,
there are no illustrations shown of page openings.

Pigma Micron pen drawings by James Reid-Cunningham.

Each copy has a unique binding.

Edition of 20.

Two-flap wrapper constructed from watercolor paper and decorated with red and black ink.

1/2 x 9/16 x 3/16.” 1.3 x 1.4 x .5 cm.

Bound in 2004.

This copy is for sale for $250.

Bound in full white box calf with tooling in metallic foil.

5/8” x 5/8” x 3/16”. 1.6 x 1.6 x .5 cm.

Bound in 2013.

This copy is for sale for $400.

Bound in full dark blue calfskin covered in palladium leaf,
with a central device in gold leaf on each board.

5/8” x 5/8” x 3/16”. 1.6 x 1.6 x .5 cm.

Bound in 2004.

This copy is sold.

Bound in full dark blue calfskin decorated in gold leaf
and palladium leaf

1/2” x 9/16 x 3/16.” 1.2 x 1.4 x .5 cm.

Bound in 2005.

This copy is for sale for $400.

Bound in full dark blue calfskin covered in gold leaf on each board,
with a device tooled at the center of each board.

1/2” x 9/16 x 3/16.” 1.2 x 1.4 x .5 cm.

Bound in 2005.

This copy is sold.

Bound in full purple goatskin,
with palladium tooling and feathered onlays of white box calf,
orange goatskin and pink kidskin.

1/2” x 9/16 x 3/16.” 1.2 x 1.4 x .5 cm.

Bound in 2007.

This copy is sold.

Bound in tyvek with laminated papyrus boards and pen and ink drawings.

1/2” x 9/16 x 3/16.” 1.2 x 1.4 x .5 cm.

Bound in 2007.

This copy is sold.

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