Giant
Subtitle: a deity with leaves
By: Rebecca Chamlee
Contributors: Pie in the Sky Press; M & H Type (Firm); Swamp Press
Edition: [Deluxe edition].
Publisher: Pie in the Sky Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Simi Valley, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Artists' books; Specimens; Valley oak; Oak; Trees in art; Leaves in art
Description: A huge Valley oak has stood in Corriganville Regional Park in Simi Valley, California for over 400 years. This is the story of how the great oak has become a cherished and prominent presence in the artist's daily life.
Notes: Edition statement from publisher's website and colophon

"The letterpress printing was done on the ... Vandercook Universal III power press using Centaur and Arrighi type, cast by M & H Type Foundry and Swamp Press, wood French Clarendon and photo polymer plates on Zerkall Book Wove, handmade Kitakata and Korean Hanji papers. The botanical pages are contact prints on Strathmore Aquarius II watercolor paper. The longstitch binding, sewn with hand-dyed Kinglet Cottage linen thread through a white oak spine, has a cover of contact printed and dyed handmade Indigo watercolor paper"--Colophon.

"The deluxe edition is housed in a hinged box with a preserved Quercus lobata acorn and Quercus, a suite of prints concealed in a drawer"--Colophon.

Limited edition of 50 books; 30 sets of prints.

Rare Book copy: No. 43; signed by the artist