The WunderCabinet
The WunderCabinet is the book we made because we both wanted our own Cabinet of Curiosities. And we decided that if we wanted one, then others must want one, too. The book is modelled after the 18th–century encyclopedias, which were essentially cabinets on paper. Most of the illustrations were drawn by hand from historic reference, then meticulously hand coloured. The book is housed in a box with partitions to hold essential cabinet objects: lenses, shells, sea urchins, fossils, the plaster cast finger of Princess Dashkov, and so on. We also made a miniature version of the book in a very limited number of copies.
The WunderCabinet: The Curious Worlds of Barbara Hodgson and Claudia Cohen
2011, 4to, 56 pp. Edition of 30 numbered and six A.P. copies. Set in Bembo, printed at HM on Reg Lissel’s cotton and linen papers. Copies 1–10 bound in full leather, issued in two-drawer specimen cabinet. Copies 11–30 bound in quarter leather with boards edged in leather around wood veneer onlays. Out of print.
The WunderCabinet: The Curious Worlds of Barbara Hodgson and Claudia Cohen
2011, 4to, 56 pp. Miniature edition of five numbered and three A.P. copies. One of our lesser known books. Out of print.