New York Revisited

In 1915 the Grolier Club commissioned Rudolph Ruzicka, the foremost woodcut artist of his day, to produce a series of illustrations celebrating New York City at a time of rapid, remarkable change. To capture the city at the turn of the 21st century, in 1999 the Club commissioned this successor volume, Number 3 in a new series of Grolier Club Fine Printing. Two and a half years in the making, New York Revisited is a collaboration between noted contemporary woodcut artist Gaylord Schanilec and writer (and long-time Grolier member) Kenneth Auchincloss, describing the transformations, physical and social, that New York has undergone in the last hundred years.  

This copy is bound by Jenni Grey in limp suede and rigid enamelled elements (suggesting both the strength and vulnerability of the city), in a box of padouk wood.