Opening spread for the Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, intaglio engravings by Chad Pastotnik.
Double throw-out page spread from Heart of Darkness
Along with Youth
Heart of Darkness
Trout page spread
The bindery room
The Path
Page spread from The Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, versified by Clara Dotty Bates.
Prototype title page
Title page from Heart of Darkness
Spread from Heart of Darkness
The Diana Gabaldon keepsake for the NWS event in Traverse City, July 7, 2014.
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.
If
Title page for the book There Be Monsters
Bower by Terrance Hayes
CD packaging
title page
Title page from Killing the Bear by Judith Minty
Opening spread for There be Monsters
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Secondary edition. The Mad Angler’s Manifesto
Killing the Bear
Opening spread for Minisens
The Mad Angler’s Manifesto
Custom bound journal, commissioned bindery work
Don Etherington binding of The Intruder
Program for Oxford
Pile of Intruders
Don Etherington binding of The Intruder
Title page to The Chesapeake Voyages of Captain John Smith
Killing the Bear by Judith Minty, deluxe edition binding & slipcase
Presentation binding for The Chesapeake Voyages of Captain John Smith
The Changeling’s Exile
Detail of circular quads used in the type form for Along with Youth
deluxe binding of The Intruder
Fancy type mortising (kerning)
detail of “The Intruder” cover
Detail of title page for the book There Be Monsters
It begins
Chained books at Chetham’s Library in Manchester, England where I was a speaker at a letterpress conference.
The Trout in Winter
Digging, by Seamus Heaney
There Be Monsters.
One of the greatest dangers of work not getting done at DWP – a good hatch on the river!
. . . and charge the big hook jaws . . .
Page spread from The Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, versified by Clara Dotty Bates.
Sitting on Hadrian’s Wall in northern England
the process
Killing the Bear by Judith Minty
the linoleum blocks for “The Path” center spread
Presentation binding for John Smith book
Center Spread
Title Page
What’s left of the block
Initial letter detail
Glenn’s remark
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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