Drypoints, embossing, and
holographic text handwritten
by Robert Cremean printed
on Arches 88 paper. Title and
colophon pages hand set in
Bembo and printed letterpress.
Housed in a linen covered tray
case. Edition of 28. 1994. (One
copy remaining.) $4,500.

Seven deluxe copies of the book
are contained in a handmade
wooden slipcase inset with one of
the seven scribed copper plates
and bas reliefs used in printing the
edition. (One copy remaining.)
$10,000.

In Greek legend, Procrustes was a celebrated robber who haunted the road near Eleusis. When guests accepted his hospitality, he made them lie on one of his two beds, one very long, the other very short. If the guest did not fit, he was cropped or stretched to fit.

Sculptor Robert Cremean took the idea of pagination and transformed his progressive, memory-based forms
into a book that was the basis for a subsequent installation of sculpture and drawings called “The Procrustes Trilogy.” He said: “It would seem that the making of this book at this time is a natural sequential pagination of my process as an artist and as a person. It was unavoidable. . .”