CURRENT NEWS
February 2012
LABYRINTH SUBLIME: THE INSIDE PASSAGE is now available to new Collectors, our bindery having skillfully worked long and hard to complete a further 60 Keough tomes in this limited-edition.
January 2012
Newspapers across North America carried the news of the recent sale of Birds of America by John James Audubon for $7.9 million.
Canada’s Toronto Public Library owns one these celebrated copies of Audubon’s Birds of America collected by the library in 1903.
The Toronto Public Library collected the Keoughs’ ANTARCTICA in 2005. On the Library’s webpage, Collected Works: A Public Legacy, curators feature ANTARCTICA together with Audubon and but a dozen fine and rare publications. The library writes about ANTARCTICA: “This unique book is a modern variation in the tradition of wildlife art made famous by John James Audubon. Its use of advanced print technology captures subtleties of colour, just as Audubon and Havell refined aquatint printmaking to control tonal variations.”
Like Audubon, ANTARCTICA is a fine-press, private-press tome, bound entirely by hand. The two works are similar in that the creation required many years of effort, and that fine imagery is featured. The Keoughs’ new work LABYRINTH SUBLIME: THE INSIDE PASSAGE reflects the identical obsessive search for perfection as ANTARCTICA. As with Audubon’s masterpieces, Subscribers assisted with the financing of this project.
All are monumental works.
October 2011
LABYRINTH SUBLIME: THE INSIDE PASSAGE is being released to Subscribers, starting this month, as copies are hand bound and their accompanying presentation boxes made. Master binder Keith Felton proudly hams it up with the first tomes to be completed. He notes that he weighs less than any one of the stacks of six or seven copies; and that the presses used during binding exert far greater pressure than his body ever could. To be sure, the volumes are individually protected with pressing boards, and Keith has taken off his shoes for the photo!
Photo Credit: Amy Felton
Three packages ready for FedEx, each containing a single copy of LABYRINTH SUBLIME in its linen and velvet presentation box. The well-padded shipping boxes each weigh 31 pounds.
September 2011
Unveiled! LABYRINTH SUBLIME: THE INSIDE PASSAGE is ceremoniously unveiled during the annual gathering of The Explorers Club at the Salt Spring Symposium, September 10, 2011. Click for details.
Photo Credit: John Lawrence
June 2011
Pat and Rosemarie Keough hold one of the first two Production Proofs of LABYRINTH SUBLIME: THE INSIDE PASSAGE. These prototypes are used for confirming binding specifications and measurements for the presentation box. Six months of lithography effort is now complete and the hand sewing and hand binding commences at Felton Bookbinding Ltd; and the crafting of the presentation boxes at Friesens Speciality Packaging.
January 2011
Lithography is soon to begin for LABYRINTH SUBLIME: THE INSIDE PASSAGE, the entire process being overseen by Pat and Rosemarie Keough. Stacks of the custom-milled paper specified for this project acclimatize to the humidity conditions in the printing plant at Friesens Corporation. Click for details.
