Lac des Pleurs : report from Lake Pepin.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Stockholm, Wisconsin] :
[Midnight Paper Sales],
[2017]
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| Edition: | [Limited edition]. |
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| Item Description: | Some illustrations are folded. Five copies taken from original 100 published in 2015 and issued as limited edition in 2017. The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy is number 81 of the original 100, and is signed by Gaylord Schanilec. Print is "Unionidae: study 2" by Shanilec, 2014. Added volume is "Gull & buoy", progressive proofs of an illustration of a gull perched on a buoy used in the publication. 3 "Edition details" are "In progress" reports from Midnight Paper Sales, from February 2013, April 2014, and at publication 2015. Issued in clamshell box. "The text--commentary on passage through the lake by Louis Hennepin, George Featherstonhaugh, Henry Schoolcraft, George Catlin, Jonathan Carver, Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Charles Latrobe, Henry David Thoreau, and Oliver Gibbs Jr., with related excerpts from Harriet Bell Carlander, George Wagner, Robert E. Coker, C. A. Lesueur, Thaddeus Surber, Paul Harder, and Mark Twain; an introduction by Patrick K. Coleman; and image captions & an epilogue by Gaylord Schanilec--has been hand set in metal type, and printed by hand on vintage Barcham Greene and Wookey Hole papers."--Artist's website. "The images--specimen prints engraved by Gaylord Schanilec including the American White Pelican, Shorthead Redhorse, White Bass, Sheepshead, Lake Pepin Mucket, Threehorn Wartyback, and Giant Floater, along with two vignettes--were all printed on Zerkall paper. Plus a foldout map of the lake, engraved by Mr. Schanilec, was printed on handmade kozo paper, and thirty 'text figures' of fish were printed from the original electrotypes used in the 1920 publication Fishes and Fish-Like Vertebrates of Minnesota, by Thaddeus Surber."--Artist's website. "The type printed here was originally cast in Monotype composition for previous Midnight Paper Sales books, then redistributed into the case, and hand set here by Jean Louise Egger, Wyatt Sandberg, and Gaylord Schanilec. With much of the text set in Bembo, a diminished supply of type prompted the setting of Lesueur's paper in Poliphilus ... The edition was bound and boxed by Craig Jensen and his daughter, Leigh Ann Jensen, at BookLab II in San Marcos, Texas. The binding is a quarter leather, flatback, lap-case structure with an over-the-shoulder hollow to ensure very flat page openings. The box is a quarter leather, double tray, drop-spine design. The cover paper was marbled in Wiltshire, England, by Jemma Lewis, whose bespoke design is based on a photograph of wet stones taken along the shore of Lake Pepin. The map was printed on Kiraku Kozo handmade paper, the images on Zerkall mould-made, and the text on handmade Barcham Green Tovil and a mould-made paper from the Wookey Hole Mill, both English mills of a bygone era. The epilogue paper and end sheets were handmade for this edition at the Saint Armand mill in Montreal, Quebec. In addition to 100 copies printed and bound as described, 19 gatherings of unbound set-up sheets exist with the text printed on mould-made Bugra paper. All the images were printed from end-grain maple blocks manufactured at Midnight Paper Sales, with the exception of the key block for Pelicanus erythrorhynchos, for which an extra piece of Corian countertop material, left over from making compartment covers for the boat, was used."--Colophon. Purchased for the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive by The Cushing Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 66 pages, 10 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), folded color map ; 40 cm, box 42 x 28 x 4 cm + 1 portfolio (progressive proofs ; 41 x 57 cm) + 1 portfolio (progressive [map] proofs ; 47 x 62 cm) + 1 print (color ; mounted, 43 x 28 cm) + 1 volume (unpaged : color ; 41 cm) + 2 sheets of marbled paper (color ; 33 x 21 cm) + 3 edition details + 8 mussel shells (various sizes), box 65 x 49 x 10 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 56-57). |
| Related Items: | The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy forms part of the Book Design Section of the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive. |