The Book Wrapped in a Shroud
Item #A2. The Open Case and Cover of the Deluxe Edition.
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Without shroud: Medium | High-Resolution
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Item #A2. The Open Case and Cover of the Deluxe Edition.
Medium-Sized Image
High Resolution Image
Without shroud: Medium | High-Resolution
Additional photos: 1 | 2
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. 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…)
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.