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Sylvæ : fifty specimens printed directly from the wood with historical anecdotes & observations
- Author
- Verhoeven, Ben.
- Title
- Sylvæ : fifty specimens printed directly from the wood with historical anecdotes & observations / Ben Verhoeven & Gaylord Schanilec.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- [Stockholm, Wis.] : Midnight Paper Sales, [2008]
- Description
- 177 p. : col. ill. (some folded) ; 40 cm.
- Other contributors
- Schanilec, Gaylord. Bixler, Michael. Bixler, Winifred. Jensen, Craig (Craig William), 1951- McLerran, Gary. Midnight Paper Sales Press. Papierfabrik Zerkall Renker & Söhne.
- Notes
- "26 lettered copies printed by Ben Verhoeven and Gaylord Schanilec. The text was cast monotype cast by Michael and Winifred Bixler in Monotype Bembo, and printed on a special making of Zerkall no. 7625. Bound by Craig Jensen and Gary McLerran. Woodwork by Dick Sorenson. The wood used in printing and binding came from Farm 590."--Colophon. Bound in quarter leather Medieval style laced wooden board binding. Contained in an enclosure along with a separate box of 25 specimens (one for each species represented). Also printed in a standard edition of 120 in 2007. Includes bibliographical notes and index. Lilly Library copy lettered "P" and signed by the authors. Bound in quarter white leather laced to wooden boards, edges untrimmed. In a blue cloth clamshell case with 25 specimens of wood.
- Awards
- Gregynog Prize at the Oxford Book Fair, 2007.
- Subject headings
- Trees--Wisconsin--Pepin County. Wood--Wisconsin--Pepin County. Artists' books--Specimens.
- Genre heading
- Color prints, American 21st century. Wood-engraving Wisconsin 21st century. Typefaces (Type evidence) Bembo (Monotype) Color wood engravings United States 21st century.