Lac des Pleurs
Subtitle: report from Lake Pepin
Contributors: Coleman, Patrick K., 1952- writer of introduction; Midnight Paper Sales Press
Publisher: Midnight Paper Sales
Published: 2015
Place of publication: [Stockholm, Wisconsin]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
Subjects: Artists' books; Specimens; Fine books; Sources; History; Description and travel
Other titles: Report from Lake Pepin; lake of Tears
Notes: Some illustrations are folded.

"The text--commentary on passage through the lake by Louis Hennepin, George Featherstonhaugh, Henry Schoolcraft, Geroge Catlin, Jonathan Carver, Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Charles Latrobe, Henry David Thoreau, and Oliver Gibbs Jr., with related excerpts from Harriet Bell Carlander, Geroge Wagner, Robert E. Coker, C. A. Lesueur, Thaddeus Surber, Paul Harder, and Mark Twain; an introduction by Patrick K. Coleman; and image captions & an epilogue by Gaylord Schanilec--has been hand set in metal type, and printed by hand on vintage Barcham Greene and Wookey Hole papers."--Artist's website.

"The images--specimen prints engraved by Gaylord Schanilec including the American White Pelican, Shorthead Redhorse, White Bass, Sheepshead, Lake Pepin Mucket, Threehorn Wartyback, and Giant Floater, along with two vignettes--were all printed on Zerkall paper. Plus a foldout map of the lake, engraved by Mr. Schanilec, was printed on handmade kozo paper, and thirty 'text figures' of fish were printed from the original electrotypes used in the 1920 publication Fishes and Fish-Like Vertebrates of Minnesota, by Thaddeus Surber."--Artist's website.

"The type printed on these pages was originally cast in Monotype for previous Midnight Paper Sales books, then redistributed into the case, and hand set here by Jean Louise Egger, Wyatt Sandberg, and Gaylord Schanilec. With much of the text set in Bembo, the diminished supply of type prompted setting Lesueur's paper in Poliphilus"--Colophon.

"The edition was bound and boxed by Craig Jensen and his daughter, Leigh Ann Jensen, at BookLab II in San Marcos, Texas. The binding is a quarter leather, flatback, lap-case structure with an over-the-shoulder hollow to ensure very flat page openings. The box is a quarter leather, double tray, drop-spine design. The cover paper was marbled by Jemma Lewis, whose bespoke design is based on a photograph of wet stones taken along the shore of Lake Pepin. The map was printed on Kiraku Kozo handmade paper, the images on Zerkall mouldmade, and the text on handmade Barcham Green Tovil and a mouldmade paper from the Wookey Hole mill. The epilogue paper and end sheets were handmade for the edition at the Saint Armand mill."--Colophon.

Printed in an edition of 100.

Rare Book copy: No. 61; signed by the artist.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 56-57).