Accession number
PML 199117
Creator
Minsky, Richard, creator, binder.
Published
New York : Richard Minsky, issued September 13, 2001
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Karen B. Cohen in honor of the Morgan's Centennial, 2024.
Notes
Part of Richard Minsky's The Bill of Rights limited edition set, a collection of 10 bookworks and a broadside that exemplify and comment on the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Amendment VI states "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense."
The Morgan Library & Museum's copy is no. VI--one of 9 copies projected to be issued by the artist. .
Amendment VI states "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense."
The Morgan Library & Museum's copy is no. VI--one of 9 copies projected to be issued by the artist. .
Description
466 pages ; 24 x 16.6 cm
Summary
A copy of Run of his life by Jeffrey Toobin (New York, NY : Random House, ©1996) rebound by Richard Minsky.
Binding
Bound in black leather, with doublures and hinge of the same leather; a black leather glove affixed to the front cover with red acrylic paint representing blood stains; the title is foil stamped in P. T. Barnum; the endpaper is designed to represent "The Race Card."
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