#abc book

M. ABC book. 1923. Illustrated by C.B. Falls.

Hans Thoma (Germany, 1839-1924)

Drawing for the primer: Hedgehog, c.1905

Pen & black ink over pencil on laid paper, laid down on cardboard

103 x 101 mm

#MiniatureMonday #TinyTuesday

A Mushroom ABC. by Peter and Donna Thomas

For the beginning of summer, MiniMondays is going to have a series focusing on a small fraction of the lovely artists books by Peter and Donna Thomas!

For our book after a long weekend, we have some lovely illustrations of mushrooms in an ABC accordion book!

"Printed watercolors on one side of an accordion folded handmade sheet (50 x 150 mm.), shaped to resemble a mushroom. First and last folded leaves mounted on two paper boards, covered with gray paper, and also shaped as a mushroom. Title paper label on front cover. Issued in a slipcase covered with paper and with a mylar front cover that reveals the shaped binding."--Catalog

Peter and Donna Thomas are "book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. They work both collaboratively and individually; letterpress printing, hand-lettering and illustrating texts, making paper, and hand binding both fine press and artists’ books." They have made over 100 limited edition books, often with Peter making the paper, and Donna doing the illustrations.

Check out more of Donna and Peter's books at Uiowa here.

--Diane R., Special Collections Graduate Student

Please do not apologise that your packing isn't cute.

I'd say that your recycling is really quite astute!

ARGH! It's even signed. 😀 and it has my favourite characters in it too. Thank you so much.

Marie-Madeleine Franc-Nohain(1878-1942)