The Yellow Barn Press. A History and Bibliography

. Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 2001 One of 175 copies.. Quarter black Oasis goatskin over DePol patterned paper boards. Leather spine label titled in gilt. Quarto. With twenty-two color plates and fifty-eight illustrations, many of them John DePol's wood engravings. Printed on Zerkall paper in Eric Gill's Perpetua A fine copy with the prospectus in a black cloth clamshell case. Neil Shaver (1924 - 2019) started the Yellow Barn Press in Council Bluffs, Iowa in the 1960s, though he did not begin printing seriously until 1979. He began at the University of Nebraska that year, where he studied printing under Harry Duncan and produced the first Yellow Barn Press book. He went on to print many expertly designed and crafted books about books: The Old Printing Office (1985), Elbert Hubbard: William Morris's Greatest Imitator (1999), American Iron Hand Presses (1991), and John DePol: A Celebration (1994).