The little river
By: by Margaret Wise Brown ; images by Michael Kuch
Contributors: Rockefeller, Liv, 1957-; Rockefeller, Liv, 1957- book designer; Kuch, Michael, 1965- artist, book designer; Shure, Ken, book designer; MacGregor, Katie; Larson, Arthur (Printer), printer; Creighton, Sarah, binder; Two Ponds Press; Horton Tank Graphics
Publisher: Two Ponds Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Rockport, Maine]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Manuscripts; Artists' books; Nature prints; Paste papers; Chine collé; Nature stories; Nature in art; American Etching
Notes: Issued, in an edition of 60, in a solander box with two companion booklets, one containing essays by the artist and Liv Rockefeller, the other a facsimile of the author's holograph draft of the work, on 22 cards (16 x 11 cm).

"Margaret Wise Brown composed The Little River in 1950. This edition of sixty copies, issued by Two Ponds Press ... marks its first illustrated publication. Michael Kuch created the etchings and paste-paper images, printed the copperplates and designed the book with oversight from Liv Rockefeller and Ken Shure. Dale Guild Type Foundry cast the 18 point Parsons, Will Ransom's only metal typeface. Russell Maret created the fleuron and title lettering, based upon a Ransom design. The ancillary text is Eric Gill's Joanna. The letterpress was undertaken on a Vandercook Universal IV by Art Larson at Horton Tank Graphics in Hadley, Massachsetts. The white and various hued papers were made by hand for the project by Katie MacGregor of Whiting, Maine. The books were bound by Sarah Creighton at her studio in Easthampton, Massachusetts"--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: No. 26; pencil drawing of a frog by the artist on leaf facing colophon.