Atlas. Nos. 1 (1985) through 4 (1993) (all published)

1st Edition. A complete set of artist-publisher Jake Tilson's multimedia travel and art serial, with texts in English, French and German, profusely illustrated throughout with tipped in plates and bound in extras. 4to. Very good. Illus. stiff wraps, extremities rubbed. [438]

As featured in Eye Magazine, Winter 1990: "In 1985, Tilson's Woolley Dale Press published the first edition of Atlas, an occasional magazine whose title neatly encapsulates his obsession with mapping, or re-mapping, the world. Atlas has become progressively more assured with each issue. Lacking formal training in graphic design and reprographic method, Tilson has taught himself by trial and error as he goes along. He keeps marked-up samples of typesetting and annotates proof copies with tint specifications so he knows which effects to avoid or repeat. The process of research, commissioning (contributors range from the painter Antoni Tàpies to cartoonist Steven Appleby), writing, design and production is a one-man labour of love. Atlas 3 evolved 'organically' from Tilson's first sketchbook ideas to eventual publication, two years later in 1988, in a trilingual, offset litho-printed edition of 2,500 with assorted hand-applied extras."