Title page from Heart of Darkness
Presentation binding for John Smith book
If
deluxe binding of The Intruder
Some books produced at Deep Wood Press. The John Barth book “Browsing” was printed here at DWP for The Literary House Press (Washington College, MD) by James Dissette, my sometimes partner in crime in printing for Chester River Press.
One of the greatest dangers of work not getting done at DWP – a good hatch on the river!
title page
Page spread from The Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, versified by Clara Dotty Bates.
Fancy type mortising (kerning)
Title page to The Chesapeake Voyages of Captain John Smith
Glenn’s remark
Center Spread
Heart of Darkness
Don Etherington binding of The Intruder
CD packaging
Title Page
The Diana Gabaldon keepsake for the NWS event in Traverse City, July 7, 2014.
Detail of title page for the book There Be Monsters
Along with Youth
Page spread from The Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, versified by Clara Dotty Bates.
Bower by Terrance Hayes
The Path
Spread from Heart of Darkness
What’s left of the block
More
Title page from Killing the Bear by Judith Minty
Detail of circular quads used in the type form for Along with Youth
The Trout in Winter
Prototype title page
Killing the Bear
Custom bound journal, commissioned bindery work
Killing the Bear by Judith Minty, deluxe edition binding & slipcase
Killing the Bear by Judith Minty
detail of “The Intruder” cover
Secondary edition. The Mad Angler’s Manifesto
Title page for the book There Be Monsters
Opening spread for the Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, intaglio engravings by Chad Pastotnik.
Presentation binding for The Chesapeake Voyages of Captain John Smith
There Be Monsters.
Sitting on Hadrian’s Wall in northern England
The bindery room
Program for Oxford
the process
Digging, by Seamus Heaney
The Mad Angler’s Manifesto
Opening spread for There be Monsters
Initial letter detail
Don Etherington binding of The Intruder
Double throw-out page spread from Heart of Darkness
the linoleum blocks for “The Path” center spread
It begins
. . . and charge the big hook jaws . . .
Pile of Intruders
Trout page spread
The Changeling’s Exile
Opening spread for Minisens
Chained books at Chetham’s Library in Manchester, England where I was a speaker at a letterpress conference.
Chad Pastotnik, Deep Wood Press 
Saw on A Craftsman Legacy. High Coolness Factor. A good friend prints some flyers on an old Kluge in his garage. Not the same Huh? Bruce
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Thank you Rebecca. Very kind of you.
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Your work takes my breath away.
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