The Stuff That Matters, textiles collected by Seth Siegelaub for the CSROT
Published by Raven Row, London, 2012, 70 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17.5 × 26.2 cm, English
Price: €45

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition The Stuff That Matters. Textiles collected by Seth Siegelaub for the Centre for Social Research on Old Textiles at Raven Row, London, 1 March–5 May, 2012. Which presented the first exhibition of the collection of historic textiles assembled by Seth Siegelaub over the past thirty years for the Center for Social Research on Old Textiles (CSROT). The exhibition featured over 200 items from the collection and included woven and printed textiles, embroideries and costume, ranging from fifth-century Coptic to Pre-Columbian Peruvian textiles, late medieval Asian and Islamic textiles, and Renaissance to eighteenth-century European silks and velvets.

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Xerox Book
Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner
Published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam & Stichting Egress Foundation, Amsterdam, 2015, 372 pages (b/w ill.), 21.1 × 27.9 cm, English
Price: €350

Originally published by Siegelaub/Wendler in 1968. Republished in December 2015 on the occasion of the exhibition Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. With contributions from Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner.

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Recherches sur le Commerce, la Fabrication et l'Usage des Étoffes des Soies
Francisque-Xavier Michel
Published by International General, New York / Amsterdam, 2001, 966 pages (b/w ill.), 17.5 × 25 cm, French / English
Price: €75

1st edition of a facsimile reprint by Seth Sieglaub’s International General imprint, originally printed in Paris 1852-1854. A wide-ranging encyclopedic compilation containing thousands of detailled excerpts and scholarly references to the different types of luxury silk, gold and silver textiles and clothing used by the ruling classes during the middle ages. The descriptions are drawn from published and unpublished sources ranging from the sixth through the nineteenth century, and include excerpts from royal and church inventories, memoirs, literature and poetry, among other sources. Due to its scholarship & range of references it is still unsurpassed and remains an unrivalled source book for the study of the history of medieval fine textiles and clothing in Europe, the Islamic and Christian middle east, and especially, France.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

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Bibliographica Textilia Historiae
Seth Siegelaub
Published by International General, New York, 1997, 416 pages, clothbound hardcover, (b/w ill.), 21.5 × 30.5 cm, English
Price: €90

A comprehensive bibliography compiled by Seth Siegelaub, containing over 5,000 catalogued entries of books & articles, with a total of over 10,000 individual texts included in anthologies, reviews & magazines, published in all languages, mostly European (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish), 15th–20th century, treating all aspects of the history of handwoven textiles as art, craft, technology, industry & commerce. All entries are given with full author & title, edition, publisher, date & series title, with most provided with collations, & over 3,000 with a descriptive annotation, including a list of each text contained in anthologies, reviews & magazines. The work concludes with a detailed subject index of the most important books in each subject area.

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International General Booklist
Published by International General, Amsterdam, 1971, fold out pamphlet, 9.3 × 21.5 cm (folded) 27.9 × 21.5 cm (unfolded), English
Price: €300

Second catalogue published by Seth Siegelaub’s International General book publishing and distribution project. In 1970, Siegelaub founded the company in an effort to streamline the dissemination of his self published exhibition catalogues as well as celebrated books & catalogues by Lippard, Ruscha, Weiner, Barry, Kosuth, and Dibbets.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

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July, August, September 1969
Seth Siegelaub (ed.)
Published by Seth Siegelaub, New York, 1969, 32 pages (b/w ill.), 21 × 27.5 cm, English / French / German
Price: €250

Publication for an international exhibition in which 11 artists each made a work in a different part of Europe & North American between July–September 1969, which served as the guide to the location and description of each work. The participating artists were: Carl Andre in the Hague, Robert Barry in Baltimore, Daniel Buren in Paris, Jan Dibbets in Amsterdam, Douglas Huebler in Los Angeles, Joseph Kosuth in New Mexico, Sol Lewitt in Düsseldorf, Richard Long in Bristol, N.E. Thing Co. Ltd. in Vancouver, Robert Smithson in Yucatan and Lawrence Weiner in Niagara Falls.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership

#1969 #carlandre #danielburen #douglashuebler #jandibbets #josephkosuth #lawrenceweiner #nethingcoltd #richardlong #robertbarry #robertsmithson #sethsiegelaub #sollewitt