The Library a Wilderness
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
No. 3 in the ‘Henry’ chapbook series
2021 / Limited Edition Book / VH0014
[Gaspereau Press Imprint]
¶ This is a lively setting of Henry David Thoreau’s journal entries for March 15 and 16, 1852. In these passages, Thoreau celebrates the arrival of spring with the pronouncement of his desire to do better and live fuller, and to “have my immortality now.” This is also the source of his much-quoted assertion that the library is “a wilderness of books.” “Books which are books are all that you want—& there are but half a dozen in any thousand,” wrote Thoreau.
Specifications: Item number three in the ‘Henry’ series. Typeset in Linotype Janson and Linotype ornaments. Printed in black, green, yellow, blue and grey on Zerkall mouldmade paper. Four sheets printed ‘two-up’, folded, gathered into a single 16-page signature (with blank eight-page signatures added to both the front and back of the book block) and trimmed to 11.8 × 18.8 cm. Tipped-on grey-coloured Zerkall endpapers. Quarterbound in umber cloth and straw-coloured Zerkall Ingres mouldmade paper over boards. Paper label on the front board, printed in three colours. Issued wrapped in a yellow card stock band printed in grey and a paper envelope printed in yellow and black from wood type and Linotype Janson.
16 pages + blank end sections + tipped-on end paper
Limited edition of 75 numbered copies
CND $150 + shipping & taxes
Note: This is my last available copy. It resides outside of the edition and is labeled ‘makeready’.
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