Nezval – Edison Boris Jirků

Vítězslav Nezval – Edison Prague: Karel Žižkovský, 2023. Loose gatherings in a custom suede-covered clamshell box. 37 pp.; 31 × 22.5 cm. Private, non-commercial edition of 100 hand-numbered copies issued for the publisher’s friends. This no. 59 signed by the artist. Illustrated with ten original serigraphs by Boris Jirků; printing and serigraphy executed by René Rebec. Based on the 2011 Česká knižnice edition, edited by Eva Formánková. Graphic design and typesetting in Kabel ITC by Bohuslav Šír; text printed by Atelier Avart on Colorplan and Lessebo papers. Bookbinding by Kateřina Stašová and Marek Staša. A striking, large-format artist’s interpretation of Nezval’s modernist poem.