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The Wind in the Willows nears completion!

04 Thursday Nov 2021

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The Wind in the Willows is almost finished and will be shipping in November!

The 75 regular edition copies of the book are quarter bound, rounded and backed, in a very dark green Moroccan goat with a cinnamon cotton book cloth, the endpapers are a printed pattern on mocha Hahnemühle Bugra with a cloth inner hinge. The title is guilt in foil on the spine in copper and silver and a debossed panel on the front cover has Rat & Mole in a crossed oar emblem foiled in copper on dyed grey vellum. The text is set in 14pt Centaur and Arrighi and printed on a custom made cotton rag paper from Papeterie Saint-Armand developed especially for this book. Featuring thirteen multi color and nine 2 color illustrations by Vladimir Zimakov and an introduction from Peter Hunt, large format 10.25 x 14″ (26×35.5 cm)

Copies of the regular edition are still available and are available with a deposit at the

Mad Parrot Website


The pictures below are bench prototypes of the finished binding. The inset illustration on the cover will be done on a grey calf vellum and the patterned end papers will be printed this week. Stay tuned for finished photos coming soon!

The deluxe copies of the book are no longer available. Binding will commence on those copies as soon as the regular edition is complete. Look for pictures here in the future as these individual works of book binding explorations come to be. Inadvertently, one longtime customer was mis-marked as wanting a regular edition, to make everyone happy (I hope) there now will officially be eleven copies made in this way.


The printing has been completed and bindery work has been moving along full steam. The printing was all done on my Vandercook 219 OS proof press – nearly 800 runs on the press all hand fed and cranked with over 40 custom ink colors made. But recently it has been a great pleasure having past apprentices and students join in on the arduous process of bindery work. Daniel Schneider (Industrial Rust Press) and Tonya Baumhardt (Snow Fairy Cottage) have been especially instrumental with their more than capable skills and we’ve managed to have some good fun along the way as well. I began the printing of this book in late February of this year with snow drifting outside and today was the first snowstorm of the new winter coming on. Cycles of seasons and books continue here at Deep Wood Press.

This series of photos shows a loose progression from printing to collating, punching sections for sewing holes, cutting and paring the goat skin, foil stamping the title, sewing, rounding and backing and casing in the book blocks.

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The Wind in the Willows printing has begun!

26 Friday Feb 2021

Posted by Deep Wood Press in Letterpress, Mad Parrot Press, The Wind in the Willows, Vladimir Zimakov

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At long last production has begun for our forthcoming edition of The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. In mid January all the materials finally arrived and after checking the plate proofs and making the final plan for the process printing began in early February!

After escaping from Manhattan last spring I returned home to the north woods to quarantine and regroup for the coming projects. I had initially hoped to be printing by the middle of last summer with a projected book release for around the holidays. I’m sure it has been an interesting year for all of us during Covid-19 but securing bespoke items to print a very special book proved to be an exercise in patience and perseverance. Fortunately, all good things come to those who wait.

  • Final trimming of the pages
  • Section layout guide, color guide, image guide
  • First color run
  • Three colors done, now the black
  • Process, 2 of 5 colors needed for this image
  • Makeready on the press cylinder
  • All of the color runs for the 12 big images
  • Six of the large illustrations complete

It has taken a full month of printing to complete the twelve 8 x 9½ inch color images that are featured in the book. Vladimir Zimakov created the original images via multi-color linoleum cuts. Each image requires three to six different colors, each is a separate run on the press in tight registration to create the completed image. Since this is the part of the printing where things can go wrong the most this is where we start! In all, some 14 custom colors were mixed and used. There are an additional 9 two color linoleum cuts which will also adorn the book.

At the current rate of printing I hope to be completed by the end of April and then the binding process will commence!

The Wind in the Willows was lovingly set by James Dissette in 14pt Centaur and Arrighi types. It has a page size of 10.5 x 14 inches (26.7 x 35.5cm), 140 pages not including illustrations, front or back matter, printed on a custom made cotton rag paper by Papeterie Saint-Armand. There are 10 sections for the book, each section contains 4 folded folios which is 16 pages. These sections are then sewn together in the final binding to create the book.


Seventy-five copies are available for sale at $2,000, Ten deluxe copies in individual presentation bindings by Chad Pastotnik starting at $2500. Also, five copies in sheets are available for binders at $1500.

There are still some copies available in both editions!

Our special thanks to those who put down their deposit long ago and have been willing to wait it out with us.

We accept checks, direct deposit or Paypal on the madparrotpress.com site. Routing and account information available on request.

Except for deposits, a 6% sales tax will be included upon final payment. Domestic shipping and insurance is $40. Shipping and insurance for international orders will be calculated per country.

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Wind in the Willows Update

06 Friday Mar 2020

Posted by Deep Wood Press in Fine Press Book Association, Mad Parrot Press, Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair, The Wind in the Willows, Vladimir Zimakov

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Just got these linocut proofs shipped to me here in NY from Vladimir Zimakov in Boston to show off to those of you who will be making your way to Manhattan tomorrow for the FPBA Fine Press Book Fair at Saint Vincent Ferrer Church on 869 Lexington Ave. between 65th & 66th St.

Wayfarers All & Wild Wood proofs

As I mentioned in my last post – 2019 was a rough health year so in the interest of making 2020 start out even better I’m offering all regular edition books and broadsides currently in inventory for sale, tomorrow only, at a 10% discount! Internet orders too!

I’ve a commitment from Vladimir that we’ll have the rest of the linocuts by late spring! James Dissette and I have been getting many inquiries from all of you asking for one to be reserved or a solid availability date. I’m happy to report I plan to be printing then binding through the summer to get this much anticipated book out, most likely to debut at the Oak Knoll fair this fall. Once I get back to the studio from this NY trip we will get our last bits of organizing in place, secure the paper and start notifying those of you who have reserved about deposits.

Hope to see you tomorrow at the show!

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