LAC DES PLEURS: REPORT FROM LAKE PEPIN

(Stockholm, WI): Midnight Paper Sales, 2015. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards in quarter leather, cloth clamshell box; top edge cut, other edges uncut. Midnight Paper Sales. folio. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards in quarter leather, cloth clamshell box; top edge cut, other edges uncut. (76) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by Gaylord Schanilec on colophon. Introduction by Patrick K. Coleman, Senior Curator of the Minnesota Historical Society. Specimen prints and foldout map, all engraved by Schanilec. Map printed on Kiraku Kozo handmade paper. Text is commentary on the lake by explorers Louis Hennepin, George Featherstonhaugh, Henry Schoolcraft, George Catlin, Jonathan Carver, Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Charles Latrobe, Henry David Thoreau, and Oliver Gibbs, Jr. Title page typeface based on photographs from pages from Columbia University's copy of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, printed by Aldus Manutius in 1499, which were traced by Russell Maret, and made into wood type at the Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Also with 30 "text figures" of fish from original electrotypes used in the 1920 publication of Fish and Fish-Like Vertebrates of Minnesota by Thaddeus Surber. Bound and boxed by Craig and Leigh Ann Jensen at Booklab II in San Marcos, Texas. Cover paper marbled in Wiltshire, England, by Jemma Lewis. (Inventory #: 123994)