This Is Not A Book

1 1/16" x 7/8"
78 pages, 25 illustrations. 

Book inside books inside a book . This has been called the Droste effect, after their recursive advertisements. This book  is a collection of jacket designs for book that only exist inside real books: The Necronomicon, The Whole Art of Detection,  If On A Winter's Night A Traveler. Each is presented as if hidden inside a hollow book, for yet another layer of un-reality. The title, of course, is from Magritte's famous painting of not-a-pipe.

Also available in miniature: This Is Not A Book.

This product was added to our catalog November 12,2010