Sylvae
Subtitle: fifty specimens printed directly from the wood with historical anecdotes & observations
By: Ben Verhoeven &  Gaylord Schanilec
Contributors: Schanilec, Gaylord; Bixler, Michael; Bixler, Winifred; Jensen, Craig (Craig William), 1951-; McLerran, Gary; Midnight Paper Sales Press; Papierfabrik Zerkall Renker & Söhne
Publisher: Midnight Paper Sales
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Stockholm, Wis.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Trees; Wood; Specimens
Other titles: Sylvarum excerptum : progressive proofs from specimen Prunus americana.
Notes: "26 lettered copies printed by Ben Verhoeven and Gaylord Schanilec. The text was cast monotype cast by Michael and Winifred Bixler in Monotype Bembo, and printed on a special making of Zerkall no. 7625. Bound by Craig Jensen and Gary McLerran. Woodwork by Dick Sorenson. The wood used in printing and binding came from Farm 590."--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: U.

Bound in quarter leather Medieval style laced wooden board binding. Contained in an enclosure along with a separate box of 25 specimens (one for each species represented).

Also printed in a standard edition of 120 in 2007.

Rare Book copy: Includes "Sylvarum excerptum : progressive proofs from specimen Prunus americana". 140 copies printed at Midnight Paper Sales, 70 for The Ampersand Club of Minnesota, 70 for The Typophiles of New York, 2008.

Signed by authors.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-174) and index.

Includes bibliographical notes and index.

Gregynog Prize at the Oxford Book Fair, 2007.