The egg is engraved with the title, perfect imprint, embellished with an original engraving enclosed with a text by Michael Gluck. This book object was delivered with rolled, uncrumpled pages within the shell. Their removal caused them to crumpled. The texts are egg shaped and printed on Tibetian paper with one raised, ink and gold leaf illuminated letter per page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

"An unpublished text by Christian Gabriel/le Guez-Ricord. An original triptych made by Anik Vinay (paper work, embossing, pastel). A design of the set and a realization of Émile-Bernard Souchière. Either a typography in gold ink on black Japan. A pyramidal and spherical place of wood, glass and metal marked with writings."

Taken from:(https://atelierdesgrames.com/livres-objet?start=6)

Lames means thin metal in English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The folded letters were printed in an edition of 650 in 1983-1991 and mailed to the Sackner Archive in separate envelopes by Edition Despalles, the distributor for Atelier des Grames, but the cassette that holds them is made upon request. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Rick Poynor contributes an essay "Right Stuff" about ethical design. Martin Fox describes Print's environmental outlook in two early issues. A book review by Sumner Stone traces the publication U&lc edited by John D. Berry, Dan Nadel reviews "Steinberg at The New Yorker." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.