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Of Making Many Books There is No End And Much Study is a Weariness of the Flesh
Gouache
1993

The phrase is from Ecclesiastes. Baskin was a fanatic bibliophile. He said, “People like me who care about printing – the architecture of the page – constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe group in the nation.”




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