Finis (Collected Tailpieces)

 

Tailpieces are decorative elements used in printing to mark the end of a text or a chapter. In the hand made edition Finis Sea Urchin compiles 30 tailpieces that were done in the 19th and 20th centuries by various artists, ranging from Thomas Bewick to Alfred Kubin and George Grosz and displaying a variety of styles. The tailpieces have been printed single sided on thin Japanese paper and have been Japanese bound with a flyleaf of red kite paper into a compilation of closing images in which the only texts are those on the title page and in the index of artists on the flyleaf. Finis… 30 ways of ending up. Edition of 15 copies only.