Richard Tuttle, Robert Graves

One-of-a-kind rebinding of the set I, Claudius and Claudius the God.

• Sold as a set of 2.
• Robert Graves (British).
• Richard Tuttle (American).
• Illustrated by Neil Packer.
• Included with the books are two signed artist statements by Richard Tuttle on the making of I, Claudius and Claudius the God.
• Rebound by Tuttle in 2012 in marble tiles over wooden boards with snakeskin spines, hand-painted endpapers and titles affixed to spine.

Tuttle creates one-of-a-kind works of art that merge the written word with fine leather, paper, paint, wood and veneer. These original book bindings have been featured in a PBS documentary on the Chicago Art beat. Tuttle describes his work as follows: “I make literary artifacts. They are designed to pull books down off the shelf and display them in the salon, gallery or home [...] I seek to find a perspective that shouts out a piece of the essence of the literary work. I try to put myself in the author's or character's mind to say something about the time it was written in; the attitude that is explored and expressed; the magic that makes it a work of art.”