Still Deep and Sweet

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

2019 / Limited Edition Chapbook / VH0008
[Gaspereau Press Imprint]

¶ In the spring of 1856, Henry David Thoreau immersed himself in the collection of sap and the production of maple sugar, recording his observations in his journal. This limited-edition letterpress chapbook collects Thoreau’s thoughts on maple sugaring and adds to them an afterword by the poet Peter Sanger and two illustrations by J.J. Steeves.

Specifications: Typeset in Linotype Fairfield. Printed in black and green on Stella Text cotton paper. Four sheets printed ‘four-up’, folded, gathered into a single signature and trimmed to 12 × 18.5 cm making 32 pages. Includes a two-colour frontispiece illustration by J.J. Steeves printed from photopolymer. Bound with a three-hole stitch into a black endsheet, a black paper cover printed in silver with a drawing by J.J. Steeves, and a Saint Armand Old Masters handmade paper wrapper printed in three colours.

32 pages + black endsheet
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies­
CND $100 + shipping & taxes

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