Minsky, Richard – Animal Magnetism – Artist Book The book is signed by Richard Minsky and numbered 3 on the back copyright page, has a blue leather suede binding, and is in good condition. Measures approximately 12" x 9 1/2". The book contains 26 hand colored computer realized images printed ink jet on handmade paper specially produced at the Dieu Donn Papermill in New York City with the MINSKY watermark. The pictures are adapted from 16th through 19th century engravings of animals, which are scanned and variously altered. Each image faces a fragment of text, suggesting a story which the reader's imagination must create. The edition consists of 20 copies bound in cloth numbered 1-20 and 5 deluxe copies in leather numbered I-V. The deluxe copies come with five additional signed copies of prints hand colored by the artist. 1993.

From Wikipedia: Richard P. Minsky is an American scholar of bookbinding and a book artist. He is the founder of the Center for Book Arts in New York City. In 1960, Minsky obtained his first printing press at the age of 13 to replace rubber stamps he had been using. In 1968, he graduated cum laude in economics from Brooklyn College. Minsky was awarded a fellowship at Brown University, where he received his Master's degree in economics. He pursued a Ph.D. at The New School for Social Research, but left after two years to pursue bookbinding, art and music. He studied bookbinding in Providence, Rhode Island with master bookbinder Daniel Gibson Knowlton, whom he met at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library at Brown University. In 1974, Minsky founded the Center for Book Arts in Manhattan, the first organization of its kind in the United States dedicated to contemporary interpretations of the book as an art object while preserving traditional practices of the art of the book. In 1978, he was named a US/UK Bicentennial Fellow in Visual Art by the National Endowment for the Arts and the British Council. Minsky stated that he does not believe in talent and that he simply continues to become better at bookbinding through his persistence since his first "awful" attempts in 1968. In 2004, Yale University Library acquired Minsky's archive of published fine art editions and other works. Minsky is the recipient of the 2011 Worldwide Books Award for Publications from the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA).