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Farmers : wood engravings, interviews.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1977
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schanilec, Gaylord, book designer, interviewer, printer, wood-engraver.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Farmers--Middle West--Interviews.
- Farmers.
- Farm life--Middle West.
- Farm life.
- Wood-engraving--Specimens.
- Wood-engraving.
- Fine books--Wisconsin--Stockholm--Specimens.
- Fine books.
- Middle West.
- Genre:
- wood engravings (prints)
- color wood engravings.
- interviews.
- limited editions.
- Wood engravings
- Interviews
- Specimens
- Interviews.
- Wood engravings.
- Private press books (Publishing) -- Wisconsin -- Stockholm.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Misc 1977)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Misc 1977)
- Physical Description:
- 56 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stockholm [Wisconsin] : Midnight Paper Sales Press, [1989]
- Contents:
- Elaine Miller (rural Oakland, Minnesota
- June, 1988)
- Herman Schanilec, Jr. (rural Minto, North Dakota
- July, 1988)
- Danny Narlock (rural West Oslo, North Dakota
- November, 1989)
- Joe Edlin (rural Stockholm, Wisconsin
- January, 1989).
- Notes:
- Gaylord Schanilec illustrations and interviews with Elaine Miller, Oakland, Minnesota; Herman Schanilec Jr., Minto, North Dakota; Danny Narlock, West Oslo, North Dakota; and Joe Edlin, Stockholm, Wisconsin.
- Printed by Gaylord Schanilec at the Midnight Paper Sales Press.
- "Farmers was designed and hand printed by Gaylord Schanilec in an edition of 174 numbered and 26 lettered copies. Hand bound into boards at the Campbell-Logan Bindery, the numbered copies are bound in cloth and the lettered copies are full-bound in leather ... the wood engravings are by Gaylord Schanilec and were cut in end-grain maple blocks made by Jim Reynolds. The text was derived from recorded interviews conducted by Gaylord Schanilec and edited by Clayton Schanilec"--Colophon.
- Lettered copies bound in full natural goatskin, embossed with the chopmark of Gaylord Schanilec on colophon. Issued in beige cloth clamshell box with 9 unnumbered color plates in a tan paper chemise portfolio labeled "Prints."
- Local Notes:
- Misc 1977: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck. Edition number 56. Artist's autograph and ink inscription on colophon: The last copy at Oak Knoll 5 October 96. Publisher's advertisement laid in.
- Cited in:
- Rulon-Miller, R. Quarter to midnight : Gaylord Schanilec & Midnight Paper Sales, A.90
- OCLC:
- 20604693
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