The Book Wrapped in a Shroud

The Open Case of the Deluxe EditionItem #A2. The Open Case and Cover of the Deluxe Edition.

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Title Page and Frontispiece of the Book

Pages 4 and 5 of the Deluxe EditionItem #A3. Pages 4 and 5 of the Deluxe Edition.

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The Bicoid Maternal Morphogen Sequence

Pages 8 and 9 of the Deluxe EditionItem #A4. Pages 8 and 9 of the Deluxe Edition.

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A Pairing of an Ashbaugh Etching Alluding to DNA Gels with the Bicoid DNA Sequence

Pages 10 and 11 of the Deluxe EditionItem #A5. Pages 10 and 11 of the Deluxe Edition.

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The Final Pages of the Deluxe Edition

Pages 62 and 63 of the Deluxe EditionItem #A6. Pages 62 and 63 of the Deluxe Edition.

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Kirschenbaum, Matthew G. “Ashbaugh and Gibson’s Agrippa: A Description of the Book Based Upon My Examination of the NYPL Copy.”

MGK (Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s blog). 4 June 2004. Retrieved 26 Sept. 2005. http://www.otal.umd.edu/~mgk/blog/archives/000804.html

Kirschenbaum, whose introduction to his Mechanisms: New Media and the New Textuality (under contract to MIT Press, scheduled publication Fall 2006) discusses Agrippa and its early reception, provides a bibliographical description of the the copy held by the New York Public Library. (more…)

Center for Book Arts. Physical Description of Agrippa (a book of the dead).

Center for Book Arts. 1993. Retrieved 26 Sept. 2005. http://www.centerforbookarts.org/archive/workdetail.asp?workID=747

Brief bibliographical description of Agrippa concentrating on the physical artifact; created for the Center for Book Arts’s exhibition of Agrippa, NYC, 24 April-19 June, 1993. (more…)

Publicly Accessible Copies of Agrippa

Three copies of Agrippa (a book of the dead) are known to be in the collections of libraries and museums: the New York Public Library in New York, NY < http://catnyp.nypl.org/ >, Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI < https://www.library.wmich.edu/ >, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England < http://www.vam.ac.uk/nal/catalogues/ >. It is noteworthy that neither the Library of Congress nor the British Library owns a copy.

The Frances Mulhall Achilles Library at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, New York < http://library.whitney.org/ > has a promotional prospectus of Agrippa.

First Mock-Up of Agrippa (Jan.-Feb. 1992)

First Mockup of Agrippa Item #A9. Promotional mock-up of Agrippa (a book of the dead), created January-February, 1992.

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The mock-up was made by artificially distressing a used book (not the eventual Agrippa) and cutting a cavity into its back pages to hold a disk labeled “AGRIPPA.” The mock-up lacks Dennis Ashbaugh’s etchings, and features the text of some old used book (not the DNA sequence text of the final editions of Agrippa).

First Mock-Up of Agrippa (Jan.-Feb. 1992)

Picture of AgrippaItem #A9 (variant photo, with box-case). Promotional “mock-up” of Agrippa (a book of the dead).

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