Title: Prelude
Artist: Peter Downsbrough
Publisher: Imschoot, uitgevers, Ghent, put online by Netpoint, Ghent (1997), and deSingel, Antwerp (2011)
Format: 40 pages + instruction sheet, 18 x 12 cm; To be downloaded from the Internet, printed and assembled
ISBN: none
This book was done as a project on the Internet in 1997 and was available as a free download for a certain period of time from the website of Imschoot, uitgevers. Prelude could be printed out and assembled according to the artist’s instructions. In the colophone of this publication Peter Downsbrough stipulates that any commercial exploitation is strictly prohibited and that this book should not be published by any other method. [From: Moritz Küng (ed.), Peter Downsbrough. The Book(s) 1968-2010, Hatje Cantz: Ostfildern, 2011, 53.]