Wood Engraving Wednesday
This lovely title just walked in the door a couple of days ago, our latest acquisition: novelist and Kentucky Poet Laureate, 2005-06, Sena Jeter Naslund’s winter story, When Children Ruled the World: A Christmas Story, about of a little girl named Una who wakes up in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky before there were any adults in the world. It was handprinted and published in late 2021 by Larkspur Press in Monterey, Kentucky, and illustrated with exquisite black and white and two-color wood engravings by the estimable Kentucky wood engraver Joanne Price.
Our copy is one of 42 printed on Zekall paper, quarter-bound with papers marbled by Debbie Shannon, and signed by the author and artist. There is also a separate run of 500 copies with original black and white wood engravings by Price printed on Mohawk Superfine (only $32! More than worth the price!). Today we are focusing on Price’s engravings, but the letterpress printing in handset Cloister Lightface, designed by Milwaukee-born Morris Fuller Benton, on a Chandler & Price hand press is equally exquisite. The entire edition was printed and handbound by writer Nana Lampton, press apprentice Leslie Shane, and Larkspur Press proprietor Gray Zeitz.
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