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The ABYB is a biennial reference publication focusing on international activity in the field of book arts. It serves as a resource for librarians, artists, academics, students, collectors, dealers, publishers and researchers, in fact anyone interested in artists’ books!

Edited by Sarah Bodman. Published by Impact Press at The Centre for Print Research, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. ISBN 978-1-906501-30-3. 288pp, 21 x 29.7 cm, black and white throughout, 497 illustrations. Published April 2026.

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Articles by: Dr Stefan Soltek, Egidija Čiricaitė, Aaron Cohick, Dr Monika Jäger, Catherine Cartwright, Theresa Easton & Jean McEwan, Tanya Peixoto, Alastair R. Noble, John Bently, Ruth Sacks, Susanne Padberg & Ruth Reinstein Rogers, Killian Dunne, Dr Caren Florance.

Cover design: Tom Sowden a tribute in celebration of forty years of ‹usus›.

Artist pages: Holly Ayers-Durbin, Maria Ahmed, Vanessa Donnelly, Marianne Holm Hansen, Jane Hyslop, Paul Laidler, Martha Olech, Alexis Over-Papatzaneteas, Sadie Pedersen Sharp, Rachel Simmons.

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470+ works in the Artists’ Books Listings section. Here you will find new books made (or in the making) by artists in: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, the UK and USA.