Red Trillium Press

SOCRATES- KNOW THY SELF    An autobiographic observation. Housed in a cigar box is guillotined 1970’s Boy Scout Manuel and one inch square cuttings of Oak, Beech, Red Maple leaves, Birch bark, Paper Wasp nest, Porcupine quills, and twigs collected from around the artist’s home.
1999    Unique    10 X 13”    $3000

BANFF     Yardsticks with handmade paper, maps, pen and ink, pencil, collaged photographs found paper, river pebbles, Spruce cones, etc.  Bound with two cords.

2000    Unique    24 x 36”    Sold


ATLANTIC COAST 1963     Collaged road maps on advertising rulers, housed in a box covered in phragmities paper and lined with pre interstate road map
2002    Unique    12 x 18”    $1000    

LILLIAN    Lillian is an accordion book with six panels created for the Smithsonian exhibition Science and The Artist Book. The first and last panels are woodcuts drawn from illustration of Marcello Malpighi’s Anatome Plantarum. The panels in between the woodcuts are four color Xerox collages of the medical records of the artist’s daughter’s gestation. On the verso are six watercolors of plants found in the fields and woods of Western New England. Overlaying one watercolor is a section of topographic map locating a stand of old growth forest in Western Massachusetts.
Each panel 9.5 x 12" - overall 12 x 57"
1996    Edition of 5            $3000     1 copy remaining

JOANNE, LOSS OF MEMORY   A collection of memories, documenting the life of the artist’s mother, recording her career as the first women scientist in 1951 at the University of Delaware’s Graduate College of Marine Science and her notes struggling with memory loss into an Alzheimer's haze. Housed in a doll trunk, lined with Spartina handmade paper collected from the marsh where she assisted her husband in his research, are palm leaf books, maps, photographs, biological ephemera, her research paper describing plankton populations in the Delaware Bay in the 1950’s and her ashes. Joanne Currier Daiber died in Feb. 2006
2002        Unique        13” x  6.5” x 7”     Sold

In the deluxe edition of Salty Memoirs: Adventures in Marine Science, Joanne Currier Daiber’s book, Views from the Distaff Side, and Dr. Daiber’s Birth Pangs and Growing Pains are bound “dos a dos” (back to back) in a single volume.

The covers are made from Spartina, a salt-marsh grass that was collected from the Canary Creek Marsh in Lewes by the Daibers’ eldest son, Steven, and his daughter, Lilly.

Embossed on the cover of Dr. Daiber’s Birth Pangs and Growing Pains (see left) is the mummichog, a fish common to Delaware tidal creeks, while Views from the Distaff Side features a species of copepod (a tiny crustacean) named after Mrs. Daiber. The embossments were designed by Steven Daiber.

The inside covers of the deluxe edition feature Steven Daiber's colored woodcut prints of the Delaware Bay, fiddler crabs, and copepods.

The remaining interior of the deluxe edition is the same as the regular edition of the book. The text is enhanced by historical photographs from Dr. Daiber’s personal collection as well as illustrations by Steven Daiber.

Only 25 copies of the deluxe edition were printed. The purchase price is $350 per copy.

THE MARVELS OF NATURE     Found text with 350 Red Maple leaves, 1 leaf between each page.        
1998    Unique    6 x 9 x 4”    $500

                


THE LAWN     Altered 1930’s book on lawn maintenance with botanical specimens.
1999    Unique    4 x 6”    $500

SCAPIDON      50 Scapidon butterflies collected in India mid 20th century, with woodcut on the original paper used to store the butterflies. The butterflies are contained in a cigar box.     1999    Edition of 5 6” x 8” x 1”    $300    

MONTEITH’S MANUAL OF GEOGRAPHY, 1868    Botanical specimens, watercolor
1992    Unique    7.5 x 9.5”    $300    
    
GUYOT’S GEOGRAPHY, 1875     Ten years of sketches and observations. Mixed media, botanical specimens    
1989- 95     Unique    9.5 x 12”      $500

SPECKLED TROUT by John Burroughs        Offset lithograph with 43 pencil drawings, 2 watercolors & 1 birch bark collage. The deluxe edition includes 2 color woodcuts and a wood engraving. Bound in a handmade paper with a birch bark label.
1998    Edition of 300    9 x 7”    Deluxe $600    Standard  $225    

SAWBOX is a late 19th century natural history text, illustrated with wood engravings wrapped around White Pine Cones. Early 20th century road maps are used to bind the individual cones into a loose accordion structure. These cones are housed in an antique wooden saw box with a handsaw stored in the lid of the box
2001- 5    Unique    32” x 9” x 9”    $2000

THE ELEMENTS OF BOTANY by Asa Gray is a 19th century botanical school text with the cover collaged in Red Maple leaves collected in the fall of the year.
2005        8.5" x 5" x  1.25        $1500

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