Haein Song Whole Light / Folds Pain Memory Marking Colour A Brief History of... *** The Fragments of Parmenides The Botanical City Ornamental Digressions Hungry Bibliophiles Interstices & Intersections Perpetua and Felicity In Principio La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation Dickinson's Selected Poems Bram de Does Russian Modernism Beckett's Trilogy The Songlines Linear A to Linear Z A Bend in the River Mr. Palomar Journey Round My Room The Myth of Sisyphus Romeo and Juliet The Periodic Table The Trial Gogol's Collected Stories Brush Up Your Shakespeare Just So Stories Le Grand Meaulnes Whistler Don't Look Now *** Three Plays of the Absurd Nine Books of the Absurd *** About Ornamental Digressions by Russell Maret Bound in 2021 Russell Maret 2016 Letterpress printed by Russell Maret Unique copy of an edition of 100 368 x 264 x 16 mm Full leather binding in grey goatskin with back pared onlays in 7 colours. Grey leather joints and doublures. Endpapers have been screen printed. Hand sewn silk headbands with highlight colours. The binding is housed in a grey cloth-covered Solander box with the title in light grey with 7 coloured letters to reflect the colours of the onlays. The book contains various compositions of pinwheel ornaments exploring what the ornaments were not supposed to do as opposed to what they could do. Each page comes with quotes from various sources including Ruskin, Dickens, Cobden-Sanderson, Shakespeare, Morris and Goethe. The ornaments are made up of three unique shapes - circle, tilted parenthesis and dagger variation. When moving from the cover to the endpaper and from the endpaper to the pages, I wanted to create a sense of perspective with changes in scale. The cover design is a composition of three unique shapes separated and scaled 7 to 50 times larger. The endpaper is screen printed using the shapes scaled 8 times larger. Stanford University Special Collections, USA