Marquand Editions
HANDMADE ART BOOKS. HANDMADE ART.
Marquand Editions produces extraordinary
handmade art books.
Collaboration
We connect with brilliant artists, designers, writers, photographers, other publishers, and creatives from many fields to work with our team of craftspeople to extend the definition of what a published can be.
Paper Hammer Studios
Our work is done here in Tieton, a small town two-plus hours from Seattle. Here, our studio is equipped to use the best techniques of the 19th-, 20th, and 21st-century printing, binding, and fabrication techniques.
Completion
Our editions go out into the world in different ways. Some are exclusively distributed by the artist and galleries, others are sold through fine press channels. Some are private, very personal editions.
PUBLIC LIBRARY
An American Commons
A tribute to a fundamental institution
There are approximately 17,000 public libraries in the country today, and Robert Dawson set out in 1994 to document a portion of them. He spent the next eighteen years traversing the country from California to Maine and from Alaska to Florida photographing America’s public libraries. With specific itineraries based on demographics, political history, geography, cultural diversity, local literary heroes, and architectural interest, Dawson would get on the road, shoot, edit and evaluate, and see where the photographs were leading him. What were these institutions—some modest and rural, some grand and urban—telling him about the library’s relationship to its community, to the history of a place, and to our national identity?
With a bow to Lee Friedlander and Timothy O’Sullivan, this album offers Dawson’s photographs as a partial survey—a slice of the vernacular landscape of contemporary America through the lens of libraries and the communities they serve. Greatly influenced by the landscape work of Ansel Adams and the work of the Farm Security Administration photographers such as Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, Dawson sought to go beyond a predictable architectural study to provide a greater social, political, and cultural context to his photographs. The project grew out of his long-term commitment to photographing “what we share”: water, landscape, parks, infrastructure, the built environment—the commons. What we share, what we need to take responsibility for, and what binds us together as a culture. As Bill Moyers states “Dawson shows us . . . what is at stake—when the library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.”
Public Library is in the permanent collections of the Ute & Bill Bowes Art & Architecture Library at Stanford University and the Huntington Library.
This limited-edition album presents fifty original 13" x 19" digital images printed by Dawson. The special post binding allows for the prints to be used for exhibition. The edition is limited to 15 copies.
Each print is introduced with a translucent caption page.
Each print may be temporarily removed from the album for exhibit.
THE NUNO BOX
TEXTILES OF REIKO SUDO
A book
made of the fabrics it honors
A bento box of textiles
Reiko Sudo is one of the great textile designers working today. Her talent is admired internationally, and her innovative designs are part of the permanent collections of museums around the world. The Nuno Box has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cooper-Hewitt, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum, Cotsen Foundation, Tokyo Zokei University, Textile Museum, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), and UCLA Library. It is also included in many private collections.
140 distinct textiles are represented in this book/object. It houses three scarves, a notebook of cloth samples, and collages assembled by Sudo herself. Tools and raw materials used in her practice are featured as part of the edition.
Published in a edition of 50 copies, all signed and numbered.
This LACMA video presents the components in detail.
ONE TREE
A book/object honoring
La Ceiba
A single kapok tree in Costa Rica sends a global message
In this remarkable edition, environmental scientist Gretchen C. Daily and photographer Charles J. Katz describe how one relict tree, the magnificent Ceiba pentandra in the village of Sabalito, carries physical and spiritual importance far out into the world. In poetic language interwoven with scientific fact, she also describes the historical and natural history of this tree and of the ceiba species in general. Katz's photographs of the tree and village amplify this message quietly yet forcefully.
Gretchen Daily is the recipient of the Blue Planet Prize, the world's most prestigious award for environmental sustainability.
One Tree is in the permanent collections of the Vatican Library, the Ute & Bill Bowes Art & Architecture Library at Stanford University, Pennsylvania State University Library, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, University of Washington Libraries Special Collections,
and Boston Athenæum.
THE MAGICIAN
Chris Byrne
A magician's case of graphic story books
The Magician is an epic graphic novel, a bookmaking tour de force, a mesmerizing art object, and the completion of over a decade-long obsession of author Chris Byrne. This enigmatic box of wonders houses a dozen separate publications, printed and hand bound using a variety of techniques.
The books include Theogony, Handmade, Down the Head, Mountain Man/She-Wolf, Letterpress Flipbook, 4-Ply Toilet Paper, Moleskine, The Magician Manual, M-Phase, Unfinished Versions, Colophon, and Curtains.
Copies of The Magician are included in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; School of Visual Arts Library, New York; and the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, New York; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California; The Magician and Archival Materials 2002-2013, Special Collections and College of Visual Arts, University of North Texas, Denton; Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington; RARE-BOOKS, University of Southern California, Architecture and Fine Arts Library, Los Angeles, California; Kennesaw State University Bentley Rare Book Museum, Kennesaw, Georgia; The Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
"Chris Byrne has made an alt comic of such invention, thoughtfulness and ambition that only Chris Ware's artistic production is on a similar playing field and I imagine that Chris [Ware] will be impressed or astounded or disturbed by this narrative machine that contains, issues and transcends the medium." —Gary Panter, February 2013
"There is no single apt reference point for Chris Byrne's ingenious The Magician. It is a wunderkammer, a Cornell-ian box, a visual novel, a conjurer's tool kit. Above all it's a moving, multifaceted graphic narrative. There's never been anything quite like it."
— Dan Nadel, February 2013
Designed by Chris Byrne and Scott Newton. Published by Marquand Books in an edition of 20 with five artist's proofs. For more information contact Ed Marquand, ed@paper-hammer.com
CAVALO LUSITANO
PORTRAITS OF A NOBLE BREED
Dramatic light, calm moments, spirited movement
A Lusitano horse must function well in order to be the athlete that works on the farm and performs both in the bullring and in the show ring on demand. The Lusitano must be courageous but must also wait for the signals, the communication from his rider when facing a bull. It is a matter of life or death.
Produced for Veritas Editions, this fine press volume showcases eighteen original platinum/palladium prints and one photogravure by Keron Psillas Oliveira. Photographing on three continents over a period of eleven years, Keron offers some of her most compelling images to reveal the spirit within the Lusitano.
THE SPIRIT WITHIN AUSTRALIA
A book
of original photographs
Vintage techniques express contemporary images
Produced for Veritas Editions, this fine press volume showcases Australia through original photographic-based art from a selection of established and emerging Australian artists. Fifteen tipped in original prints and one loose original print, representing nine different historic printing methods, presented in a clamshell case.
Foreword by Alan Davies, Emeritus Curator of Photographs, State Library of New South Wales
THE SPIRIT WITHIN
Craig Alan Huber
The California Missions
Craig Alan Huber visited each of the twenty-one missions and captured images that express the history and the spirit of these important monuments to Spanish California. Tipped in platinum prints on letterpress printed pages, hand-stitched into an oversize album. Clam-shell box and print folder for loose original prints.
Produced for Veritas Editions. Winner of First Place in the Vermont Center for Photography “By the Books” exhibition, 2016.
Copies of The Spirit Within are in the special collections of the University of Washington Library; UC Berkeley Bancroft Library; Santa Clara University; The Huntington Library; Stanford University Cecil H. Green Library; and the Vatican Library.
MATEO LÓPEZ: X Y Z
One book in two editions
A book of drawings in two bindings
Mateo López draws simply and directly in pencil with an engineer's precision. We reprinted each one digitally on Caneletto paper, French folded each page, and stab-stitched the book block to create a facsimile. 150 copies are encased in a cruciform portfolio with a shoelace tie. 30 copies slip into a tray within a clam-shell box that houses a delicately cut paper sculpture, pinned to a facsimile cutting board.
