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Staff Pick of the Week
For my Staff Pick, I’ve chosen to share more from what I think I would say is my favorite book in the collection, Lac des Pleurs by Gaylord Schanilec and his Midnight Paper Sales press. It’s a beautiful book, and we’ve posted about some of the wood engravings of fish and the marbled paper it’s bound in previously. However, it seemed a shame to me not to share the other engravings from the book. What I love about the book is that it feels so complete—it’s well thought-out in every aspect and you can really feel the quality of every element from the type, to the engravings, to the paper.
The color engravings shown here are wood engravings, and the black and white engravings of fish are zinc engravings. My favorite of the wood engravings is the pelicans. The book also features a large, wood-engraved fold-out map. The wood engravings are printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper and the text on handmade Barcham Green Tovil and a mouldmade paper from the Wookey Hole Mill. The map was printed on handmade kozo paper.
I highly recommend seeing this book in person if at all possible so that you can see the true size and colors of the prints and the marbling and feel the texture of the paper. A lot of work went into the making of this book and it shows!
I also like the content of the book, with one of my favorite passages shown here. It reads:
“There is a resonance in the world we can sence, I think, when we become aware of those who have come before us. But it’s more than a resonance of sound: it involves all our sences. Thoreau was approaching the end of his life as he passed through Lake Pepin, and wrote: ‘I stooped to pluck a flower & smelled the fragrance of spring stronger & nearer than ever.’ When I smell the spring fragrance and think of Thoreau on Barn Bluff, it’s not his face that comes to mind, or even his words—I smell the fragrance of spring.
Now, when the bluffs come into view, I listen.”
-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager
#Staff Pick of the Week#Lac des Pleurs#Gaylord Schanilec#Midnight Paper Sales#wood engravings#pelicans#fish#shell#boats#seagulls#Lake Pepin#Lake of Tears#kozo#Wookey Hole Mill#Barcham Green#handmade paper
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Bookmarking Book Art -- "Materials and mechanics for book conservation" by Paula Steere
Bookmarking Book Art — “Materials and mechanics for book conservation” by Paula Steere
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#Anouk Kruithof#Claire Van Vliet#Cor Aerssens#Daniel E. Kelm#David Clifford#Gary Frost#Gaylord Schanilec#Hermann Havekost#Irma Boom#Joyce Cutler-Shaw#Ken Botnick#Klaus Groh#Mark Cockram#Monique Lallier#Paula Steere
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There’s something ancient and familiar about the company of trees. The artists’ book Sylvæ celebrates that through ‘fifty specimens printed directly from wood with historical anecdotes & observations’. A collaboration between Ben Verhoeven & Gaylord Schanilec of Midnight Paper Sales in the driftless region of Wisconsin, the project began with the unexpected falling of a large white oak on the 20 acres surrounding their studio. The 23 other tree species were selected or salvaged to create a study of a sylvæ (trees growing in a particular region) of the Wisconsin woods the artists call home. “The story of the forest is as much about decay as it is of growth” they write. The natural wood cuts/engravings of the trees were created with a layer of ink applied directly to a cut of wood and imprinted directly to the page, with some artistic exaggeration to capture elements like the colored rings of sumac. Bound in quartersawn white oak wood boards, these images of wood and their supplements vary from familial memories of the trees to historical knowledge of use of different trees in the region and even the stats of a 1938 baseball game played miles from the coulee these trees called home—played with white ash baseball bats.
--Laura
x-Collection FOLIO N7433.35.U6 S9 2007
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#artists' book#wood engravings#Sylvae#midnight paper sales#Ben Verhoeven#Gaylord Schanilec#Wisconsin#driftless area#forests#trees#tree species#wooden books#beautiful books#baseball bats#oak#apple#sumac#willow#printing#forest#wood
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NOW ON VIEW IN SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
My Mighty Journey, A Waterfall’s Journey
In May, renowned printer and wood engraver Gaylord Schanilec stopped by the Special Collections department to deliver our copy of his latest project, My Mighty Journey, an impressive fine press book done in collaboration with author John Coy, designer Paul Nylander, and book binder Barb Eijadi, of which only 40 copies were produced. Gaylord gave us a tour of the book describing the concept, process, and work that went into creating this impressive work of art over the last four years. My Mighty Journey and other artists’ books by Gaylord Schanilec, are now on view in Special Collections. My Mighty Journey is open for reading and browsing.
Owamniyomni, the Falls of St. Anthony, is the only major waterfall on the Mississippi River. Over the past twelve thousand years, it has eroded fifteen miles to its present location in downtown Minneapolis. My Mighty Journey is the story of this migration, written from the perspective of the waterfall. The narrative considers the people who lived nearby, the ways they lived, and how the area around the waterfall changed drastically in the past two centuries.
Coy’s poetic narrative complements Schanilec’s stunning visual images, which feature material collected along the riverbank—wood, stones, fish, and plants—to show the progression of the waterfall as it moved fifteen miles upriver from present-day St. Paul to its current location in Minneapolis.
My Mighty Journey was purchased for the Hennepin County Library with funds generously donated by Chris Du Bois. A trade version of this book will be available in October. Join us for an author talk and book signing on Saturday, November 2, 2-3 p.m.
Learn more about the four-year development and creation of My Mighty Journey @mymightyjourney
#Minneapolis#Minnesota#MMJ#Mississippi River#St. Anthony Falls#artists' books#Book Arts and Fine Press Collection#Gaylord Schanilec#John Coy#Minneapolis History
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Gaylord Schanilec - wood engraving print from Bokeh: A Little Book of Flowers
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My Mighty Journey: Who’s Who
At a group gathering celebrating August birthday’s, I was reminded that there have been so many wonderful participants over the years, it was high time we tried to remember them all! Of course, it is impossible to thank everyone who has influenced this project… but we’ll try!
Here is a look at the colophon (the back matter) for the fine press edition:
Author John Coy, here tasked with inking some type for the printing of the text in the fine press edition. Turns out, authors make great printers, too!
Illustrator and engraver extraordinaire Gaylord Schanilec, here showing John the proper way to carry metal type to and from the press bed.
This is me, Paul Nylander. Doing a little block stabilizing with Bondo. Printing and ink mixing is where I spent most of my time.
Barb Eijadi, in addition to sewing the binding and coordinating the binding production, helped immensely through most of the project, including printing and block building, and especially the detailed work on the plant prints.
Sorcha Douglas was instrumental in organizing the interns, and did a great deal of printing herself. And block work. And cataloging. And sweeping.
Emily Pressprich was an early intern, starting at the beginning with me. Not only was she there with us for the first collection, Emily helped compose the initial blocks prints, and gave us the great idea of the concept boards for early image development.
Greta Lapinski was always bundle of energy through image printing and shown here setting type.
Paris Fobbe also helped infuse the group with an unbridled energy, to see us through the type setting and printing, and has circled back to help with binding work as well.
Rayan Macalin, in high school at the time, was a real trooper who helped us through the type printing.
Kerri Mulcare was also offered an experience, steady hand when it came to printing the type and images.
Ellen Janda was always there to help out, through production of a number of the images.
Hans Koch is a relatively late addition to the family, but a great guy always willing to lend a hand. He joined us during the type printing, and has stuck with us through the binding and box making.
Monica Edwards Larson, and active printer herself at Sister Black Press, also decided to come in, and has been helping with the sewing and other aspects of the binding.
Anna Shepard, a binder and educator, has also started to help out, especially with the laborious work of cover making.
In addition to the production crew, we had a number of people offer special assistance at various critical stages of the project.
David Wiggins was a consultant and advisor well before the project started, and was gracious enough to take John, Gaylord and I on a Wilderness Inquiry canoe tour of the Mississippi.
Patricia Emerson of the Historical Society, who so graciously allowed us access to the state’s collection of spearpoints and other artifacts.
Diane Wilson and Ernie Whiteman for their support, encouragement, and explanations and for sharing the Dream of Wild Health with us.
Printer extraordinaire Elies Plana, visiting from Barcelona, spent a few weeks working with us—we made him help build boxes.
Master binders Rebecca Staley and Matthew Zimmerman, visiting from Rohode Island also spent a few weeks helping out, and sharing great tips and ideas.
Our aerial drone photographer, Michael Welsh.
Shannon Pennefeather and Dan Leary, of the Minnesota Historical Society Press, the most patient and supportive publishers we could have asked for.
And everyone else I don’t have pictures for! We thank you all!
A few extra parting pictures… because we’ve always found time to have fun!
But most of all, we thank the river and the waterfall.
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At work, Michael McGarvey, host to the 2017 Wood Engravers’ Network Summer Workshop at Stockton University in Galloway, NJ, featuring guest artist Gaylord Schanilec.
https://woodengravers.org/2017-annual-summer-workshop-new-jersey/
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Several years ago, it occurred to me that while bringing along the next generation of collectors was important, supporting and encouraging the next generation of fine press printers, book artists, and design binders was every bit as important. In many ways, the design bindings are the most challenging. Almost by definition, they are one off objects…few institutions collect bindings and private collectors who do collect bindings tend, generally, to focus on the major, established binders. I’ve been pleased to place, somewhat steadily, the work of a number of emerging binders over the past several years…several of whom got their start at the North Bennet St. School.
I have, however, been striving to get a handful of people to really consider the work of these emerging binders as *important* in time and place. That is, there is remarkably strong work being created *today* that, in a decade or two down the line, will be recognized as being the tipping point of a what it shaping up to be a major shift/evolution in the trade. It appears at least one or two institutions have begun to agree…but the breakthrough has been at last two big shows (CA and NYC) where two important private collectors and another new one embraced what is happening in the trade. The two have major bindings in their respective collections, but both really ‘got’ that not only is there amazing work being created, and that it is cost effective…but that these young binders need to be supported and encouraged in their work. Between the two fairs, I sold a total of nine (9!) bindings…six of the during the NYC fair.
I’m very hopeful that this bodes well for things to come for this new generation of design binders…and for the growth/evolution of modern design bindings are a collecting area. As I am packing books to ship, I thought I would post images of the various bindings, representing the work of six different binders. The images are quick and dirty, but I did my best to capture these wonderful bindings. Congratulations to all these young/emerging binders…I can’t wait to see what they create next.
Two from Sam Feinstein, Poems in Prose by Baudelaire and Macbeth bound in slunk, so I could write the description “bound in vellum, from its mother’s womb untimely ripped.”
Colin Urbina’s binding on Crumpe’s 1793 Inquiry into Opium
Julie Stackpole binding on Rockwell Kent’s Beowulf, the helmet is skate skin, the trees are tanned chicken’s feet.
Jackie Scott’s binding, including over 300 back-parred parchment onlays, on a limited edition Rubáiyát.
Julie Stackpole’s binding on Gaylord Schanilec’s Bicycle Diaries.
Jackie Scott’s binding on Death of A Moth.
Erin Fletcher’s binding on Invisibile Cities
Gabby Cooksey’s binding in on the massive Human Monstrosities (bound as two volumes, one light, one dark)
Close up of Gabby’s dark binding on Human Monstrosities, the inset bit is tanned toad skin.
Great fairs for new work from emerging design binders… Several years ago, it occurred to me that while bringing along the next generation of collectors was important, supporting and encouraging the next generation of fine press printers, book artists, and design binders was every bit as important.
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Wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec from his book Sylvae (Stockholm, Wis.: Midnight Paper Sales, 2007)
Pinned to Ilustrasyon by Buket Baydemir
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It’s Fine Press Black Friday!
Last Wednesday we presented a few understated wood engravings by the noted upper-Midwestern engraver and fine-press printer Gaylord Schanilec from a portfolio of literary broadsides documenting the 1998 Hungry Midnight reading series at The Hungry Mind bookstore in St. Paul, Minnesota. For this #Fine Press Friday after Thanksgiving, we present the broadside portfolio documenting the previous year’s Hungry Midnight series featuring the work of Sherman Alexie, John Dufresne, Paul Metcalf, Margaret Atwood, Charles Baxter, and Jonathan Lethem.
Entitled Context is Everything, after a prose piece by Lethem, the portfolio was printed by Schanilec, with his original wood engravings, in an edition of 20 copies (with variously editioned broadsides) at his Stockholm, Wisconsin farmstead studio Midnight Paper Sales in 1997, with each broadside signed by its respective author.
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#Fine Press Friday#Fine Press Fridays#Black Friday#wood engravings#wood engravers#Gaylord Schanilec#Midnight Paper Sales#fine press printing#fine press books#The Hungry Mind#Hungry Midnight#Context is Everything#broadsides#broadside portfolio#writer's series#Sherman Alexie#John Dufresne#Paul Metcalf#Margaret Atwood#Charles Baxter#Jonathan Lethem
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Books On Books Collection - Gaylord Schanilec
Books On Books Collection – Gaylord Schanilec
A Little Book of Birds (2017)
A Little Book of Birds (2017)
Book of 48 pages (uncut), 9 engravings by Gaylord Schanilec and a wood engraving by Thomas Bewick, all printed from the original blocks.
Signed by Schanilec, with a poem by him hand-set in Bodoni metal type.
Hand-sewn to O’Malley Crackling doublures, pasted to Degener Black from Cave Papers.
H213 x W146 mm
Edition of 100. Acquired from…
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LOCAL HISTORY PROGRAM
Author Talk: My Mighty Journey, A Waterfall’s Story
Saturday, November 2, 2-3 p.m., Minneapolis Central Library, Special Collections, 4th floor
I am
a powerful waterfall.
I listen.
I pay attention.
I have a long memory.
you might find it hard to believe
but I have moved through time.
Owamniyomni, the Falls of St. Anthony, is the only major waterfall on the Mississippi River. Over the past twelve thousand years, it has eroded fifteen miles to its present location in downtown Minneapolis. Author John Coy, printer and wood engraver Gaylord Schanilec, and Diane Wilson, Paul Nylander, and Barbara Eijadi will discuss the background and collaboration they shared on My Mighty Journey. They will show examples from both the fine press edition and the trade hardcover. Join us for a new look at this amazing waterfall that has seen so much. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Learn more about the incredible journey of producing the fine press edition @mymightyjourney. And see more fine press books by Gaylord Schanilec on view in Special Collections.
#Mississippi River#St. Anthony Falls#Minneapolis#Minnesota#Gaylord Schanilec#John Coy#MMJ#Book Arts and Fine Press Collection#artists' books#book arts
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Words: A Necessary Solitude by Mark Vinz
Wood Engraving and Printing: Gaylord Schanilec
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In today's StarTribune Variety Section (starting on page E1) is a great little article by Laurie Hertzel about four new Minnesotan children's books changing the landscape—including "My Mighty Journey."
In Hertzel’s words, “The scope of time is apparent from the first words of this impressive book, which traces a waterfall on the Mississippi River from the robust days of the woolly mammoth to its more restrained incarnation today: ‘For those who came before, those now, and those to come.’
“John Coy’s rhythmic, pounding story of Owamniyomni, also known as St. Anthony Falls—which, over time, has migrated 15 miles upriver, an astounding fact—employs verbs that bring the surging power of the water to the page: ‘People pour in. ... Booms break, logs escape, crashing ... and jamming.’
“Gaylord Schanilec’s collage illustrations and dramatic typography keep the pulsation going. Eventually, the falls grow calm, contained. ‘I am no longer as massive as I was. ...But I am still powerful. I am still here.’
“A note at the end explains how the book—years in the making—came about, with author and illustrator working closely together and with many others, walking the river, collecting bark, wood, roots, stone and other natural objects to use in the images.”
It is a great synopsis. Although she doesn't give me attribution, Hertzel’s description of one very important part of my design work on the trade edition, the "dramatic typography" as positively supporting the "rhythmic, pounding story," felt particularly good.
Shortcuts:
Book Launch Party: October 5, 2019
Best of My Mighty Journey Posts
Blog Index
Project Who’s Who
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Yes, despite what we complain about, there are things we enjoy about the approaching summer. That includes attending the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section conference in Iowa City! Lux Mentis will be part of the Bookseller showcase this year, along with many other fine booksellers. We are especially excited to feature our selection of book arts and primary source materials in keeping with this year’s theme, “The Stories We Tell.” We are also sponsoring the panel: “MATERIALIA LUMINA: THE CONTEMPORARY BOOK IN ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT: PHILOSOPHICAL MUSING OF THREE MASTER PRINTERS” featuring Peter Rutledge Koch, Russell Maret, and Gaylord Schanilec.
As a large part of our mission we aim to support especially book arts and book narratives, so we will have a good selection of artist’s books and both pictorial and literary narratives. A few of our latest acquisitions will be featured including works by Ximena Perez Grobet, Lorena Velázquez, Alexandra Janezic, Maureen Cummins, and Sam Winston. As usual, we will also bring a few challenging and provocative things.
Before the show, we will be attending the Chicago Book & Paper Fair and during the week of RBMS we will also be attending the Solstice Book Fair organized by book artists, Alexandra Janezic and Candida Pagan.
Until then, keep reading, keep collecting! See you in Iowa City!
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Maureen Cummings – Salem Lessons
43 = CUARENTA Y TRES. Lorena M. Velazquez
Sam Winston – A Child of Books
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