Pig 05049. 1:1.

Special issue. In Pig 05049, Christien Meindertsma documents the many food and consumer products made from a single pig. The book is divided into seven sections, organised by body part: Skin, Bones, Meat, Internal Organs, Blood, Fat, and Miscellaneous, including a wide range of meat and other products, including wallpaper, sandpaper, ammunition, medicine, fine bone china, train brakes, soap, washing powder, biodiesel automotive paint, body lotion, and crayons.

'The idea for this book arose from my interest in the invisible lines that link raw materials, producers and consumers world wide. In a strongly globalised world, it is becoming increasingly difficult to trace these lines and due to the increasing scope and complexity of the meat processing industry, the consumer hardly has any idea of the route an animal takes to the various finished products... I have tried in this book to outline the widest possible range of products in which a pig can end up... The route that pig number 05049 took is an example for many of its kind. This route starts at the farm and then runs to one of Europe's largest processors of meat and by-products, with a market that encompasses the entire world.'

First edition, special issue, signed in black pen on title-page; (195 x 135 mm, 7¾ x 5¼ in); colour photographs, texts by Lucas Verewij, Christien Meindertsma, Katherine Rosmalen, and Joel Gethin Lewis in Dutch and English, design by Julie Joliat; sewn adhesive-bound printed wrappers, chromogenic photograph mounted on p3, card backed black pigskin dust jacket, titles to sides in blind, yellow plastic pig ear tag piecing spine, sides lightly rubbed, near-fine; [416]pp.