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A little book of flowers.

Accession number
PML 198729
Creator
Schanilec, Gaylord, author, printer, wood engraver.
Published
[Saint Paul, Minnesota] : Midnight Paper Sales, 2020.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2021.
Notes
"The third book in a trilogy documenting one man's struggle with the reality of growing old. After a quarter century living in the rural midwest he moves to the city where he observes the isolation of urban life and the tenacious existence of the plants, birds, and animals living there--a roster of beings that includes himself. Bokeh: A Little Book of Flowers was preceded by A Little Book of Birds (MPS 2017), and Departures (Ninja Press, 2019)."--From publisher's website.
"The text of this book was composed and hand set by Gaylord Schanilec in Pholiphilus [sic] & Bembo type, and printed by him on paper hand made at the Velké Losiny mill in the Czech Republic. The wood engravings were based on photographs taken by him using a 100 mm f/2.8 macro lens, and were printed on paper mould made at the Zerkall-Bütten mill in Germany. The engraving was done primarily with a tool that had been used at the Sander Wood Engraving Company of Chicago early in the 20th century. It is a multi-line tool that cuts 10 very fine lines at once, with a handle worn by the extensive use of an unknown hand. The tool fits perfectly in the hand of the engraver of this work, who claims a mystical connection with the unknown engraver. This book was produced in the United States of America during the plague of the orange pox. Printed in an edition of 120 copies, 94 of which are numbered, and 26 lettered A-Z. This is copy: ..."--Colophon.
Errata slip laid in.
This copy is no. 94.
Description
58 pages : color illustrations (wood engravings) ; 22 cm (box case 45 cm)
Binding
Bound in limp vellum with gilt tooling by Matthew Lawler Zimmerman and Rebecca Staley in a gray-green cloth box case with a booklet of progressive proofs titled Pasque (2020), and a four-panelled folding portfolio containing additional proofs and a manuscript account of wood-engraving techniques addressed by Schanilec to Lawler and Staley, 20 November 2020. Vellum inlays on the box case and the portfolio repeat the gilt motifs of the binding. The Pasque booklet is in color-printed wrappers.
Classification
Department