Artist's book, 'Carmen dalekorum : dalek symphony : being songs of Stephen Micalef, bearded bishop of leisure', chosen, type-set and decorated by Mark Hudson, Camberwell Press, London, 1989

Artist's book in a binding comprising two hinged copper plates, with a bookmark also in copper.

The cover of polished copper is etched in relief with title and details from a battleground scene contested by armies of daleks. A similar scene is relief etched on one side of the copper bookmark in a border of eight stars; the intaglio is blue enamelled. Both scenes relate to the illustration of the Dalek Symphony which is printed on the centre pages of the volume.

The endpapers are blind embossed with musical notation.

The volume and the bookmark are separately wrapped in leaves of tissue paper, stencilled with the name, address and telephone number of Mark Hudson.

The inner wrappers (or endpapers) are of card blind embossed with musical notation.

Limited ed. of 30 copies.

25 pages

'Carmen dalekorum' is described by the artist in a letter to the National Art Library as a 'hymnal / reliquary of these TV heroes', that is the Daleks from the classic BBC science fiction television series 'Doctor Who'.

The work is a first edition collection of poetry by Stephen Micalef, illustrated by Mark Hudson.

The cover of polished copper is etched in relief with the book's title and the image of a battleground scene contested by an army of Daleks and mounted horsemen. A similar scene is relief etched on one side of an accompanying bookmark of copper with cellulose enamel. Both scenes are details from the double page lineblock illustration to one of the poems entitled 'Dalek Symphony' appearing on the centre pages of the volume.

NAL copy is no. 5 in an edition of 30

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