One of our special collections’ truly great artists’ books is The Printing House in Hell

One of our special collections’ truly great artists’ books is The Printing House in Hell, by Washington artist Mare Blocker. It’s derived from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and is one in an edition of 50 with images relief-printed but all individually hand watercolored. A stunning work (published by Blocker’s M Kimberly Press for Portland’s Charles Seluzicki Fine Books) which is all too relevant reflecting the chaos for which our world seems to be currently enmeshed…