If You Make a Mistake Put a Rose on It

Art Book / Pastry Book

by Pat Lasch and Fred Lasch

Limited edition, signed.  Published by the authors, 1985  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD+ condition.

• Garnet covers are mostly clean, with gilt text and multi-color three-dimensional decoration.  Corners are sharp.  See photos.
• Spine has silver gilt text and is bright with firm ends.
• Binding is strong.  
• End papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear.
• Gallery card from Zabriskie Gallery is inside front cover.  
• Illustrations are bright and clear. 
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear, a few stray smudges.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• PS2026.0108

49 pages. 8.25 x 11 inches

Limited, numbered edition of 500 copies.  Signed by the artist and author Pat Lasch.  Garnet cloth boards with gilt title and acrylic "frosting" decoration, title page has translucent overlay with hand-painted border.  Contents combine pastry recipes and photographic reproductions of sculptures.

Pat Lasch (born 1944) is an American conceptual artist, painter, and sculptor.  Her father Fred Lasch was a pastry chef born in Germany, and many of her works feature cakes and molded confections.  Part of the first generation of feminist artists to gain prominence, she is noted for her sculptures depicting ordinary objects created from unusual materials.

Book #419/500 produced.  Numbered and signed on the rear end paper.  Printed in Italy.

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