My Mother’s Napkins by Anne Thompson

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“Anne Thompson wrote, illustrated, hand-set, letterpress printed, & bound this book, finishing in 2004”–Colophon.
Edition of 50.
Brown cloth boards with Coptic sewn binding. Pages are paper napkins, letter press printed.
Thompson’s book reponds to her mother’s collection of over 3000 different napkins and a collector’s obsession of cataloging and labeling.

Link to Library Catalog