You can view my Philosophical and Miscellaneous Papers at:
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Books > Philosophical and Miscellaneous Papers, a suite of forged historical prints.
Commissioned to restore a first-edition Benjamin Franklin book by scientist W. H. Press, I recreated the 3 missing plates using letterpress, and added tiny, forged, anachronistic details suggested by the contemporary polymath in an imagined conversation with his predecessor.
Press, an astrophysicist, theoretical physicist, computer scientist, and computational biologist, served as Vice Chair of President Obama's science advisory council.
a) 9 folios each with suite of 5 prints: $750 each.
b) First-edition Benjamin Franklin book (restored by Sofia Baron, Dibner Book Conservator, Huntington Library), including the reproduced/altered prints: P.O.R.