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“The Intruder” regular edition bindings complete

17 Sunday Jun 2012

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The Intruder ~ Long awaited, finally arrived. Yesterday I was able to pull the first 20 bound copies out of the standing press for final touches and, honestly, the first text viewing after the completion of the printing. I like the excitement to build even for myself or rather, hate obsessing on all the things I would have done differently already.

Final binding details were still up in the air as Erin and I were starting the final assembly process but here’s how things are now:

Quarter-bound in heavy board with a Canapetta book cloth spine and Twinrocker Rustler paper. Copper foil title on cover and an embossed umber printed panel with Jim Westergard’s small “fly” wood engraving printed on green paper inset into it. Dark green Hahnemühle Bugra flyleaves back up the book blocks which are all hand sewn on straps, mull attached and cased in.

The book is composed in 14 pt Linotype Janson with ATF Garamond in display sizes and printed in 5 colors on Hahnemühle Shiller 150gsm paper. 8 1/4 x 10 3/8 x 5/8″, 34 pages. Edition of 150 books, the first 20 are reserved for the deluxe edition and 10 unbound copies are available for hand binders. Signed and numbered.

regular   $550         ❦        deluxe   $850         ❦         in sheets   $350

Those of you who had the opportunity and forethought to purchase advanced sales should find them making their way to you this coming week. I’ll get them on the website soon.

Happy Fathers Day, go fishing….

The Intruder – wrapping up the text runs

25 Wednesday Apr 2012

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Monday was spent puzzling out details on cover treatment and bindings for the regular and deluxe edition of the forthcoming release of The Intruder. The deluxe binding will be done with a calf vellum spine, lightly tooled and spine title, with a still undecided paper finishing the quarter binding. It will be housed in a drop spine box with an additional set of the five big wood engravings done by Jim Westergard. The regular edition will be quarter bound in cloth and paper, possibly cloth and cork – I’ve sent off for samples of something that might work and have inquired about the archival nature of its construction. Might be interesting, reminiscent of a flyrods grip perhaps….

Sage fly rod

Today was spent finishing the tonal background press runs for the last two big wood engravings. Finally I can put another color of ink on the Vandercook. In order to print the backgrounds in such a subtle color the rollers first had to be purged or any ink that had found its way into the crevasses and pores of the rubber. Half a morning later of inking the press with white ink and a dab of putz and then cleaning it off again three of four times did the trick.

After the tone runs we printed the last page of the book text. Still have a couple pages of the foreword, colophon and title page to go so certainly not done with the black ink yet but closing in.