the sibyls
12” x 10"; 26 fold-out pages. Printed on Dutch etching paper in Bodoni, Bernard Modern, Albertus, and Palatino type. Eight intaglio prints and six color reproductions of the five sibyls, in the Sistine Chapel and Archne (A Sibyl) by Velasquez. Bound in cloth-covered boards with a title/author plate inset in the top board. Stored in a drop-spine clamshell paper-covered box.
The Sibyls
By Sibyl Rubottom
San Diego, California: Bay Park Press, 2006. Edition of 10.
This book about classical sibyls (by a modern Sibyl) tells of the five historical sibyls: Cumaean, Delphic, Erythraean, Persian, and Libyan. Short descriptions are accompanied by an intaglio leaf print (because these sibyls often wrote their prophecies on real leaves) and a color reproduction of the named Sibyl as depicted in Western art.
Sibyl Rubottom, colophon: "... to the father I never knew who named me Sibyl hoping I would be shrewd in business. That did not occur, but I did end up making books."