Rodney Graham - The System of Landor's Cottage (boxed set) - Gevaert Editions 2012

This second edition of the 1987's publication is the most ambitious of the textual interventions that contributed to Graham's emergence onto the international art scene in the 1980s. Part 'pataphysical investigation, part Roussellian exercise, the text begins with Poe's short story Landor's Cottage: A Pendant to 'The Domain of Arnheim', which describes a waylaid traveller's encounter with an uncannily pristine landscape and cabin in the Hudson River Valley. Into this short tale, which numbers less than twenty pages in most editions, Graham inserts an entire novel centered around an annex to Poe's original structure that houses a fantastical machine. Through a complex set of nested tales, the origins of the machine become clearer but no less magical, and readers will be held rapt by accounts of architectural wonders, a mysterious cipher, and the romance of impossible science.
Essays by Jamie Hilder and Robert Linsley

The cover is printed in 4 distinct colors to form 4 sets of books numbered from 1 to 150, the 4 books are in a black box.

328p x 4 - Second Edition - 150 x 4 copies - #29/150 - very good condition