A Button Intercepts the Light and Casts a Shadow

HENRY DAVID THOREAU
No. 5 in the ‘Henry’ chapbook series

2022 / Limited Edition Chapbook / VH0023
[Gaspereau Press Imprint]

¶ Sometime after the wreck of the steamship Elizabeth on July 19, 1850, Henry David Thoreau travelled to Fire Island, New York, to investigate the drowning of the transcendentalist writer and editor Margaret Fuller and her husband, the Marquis Giovanni Angelo Ossoli. This passage from Thoreau’s journal chronicles his reaction to the tragedy and records his call to live life fully: “If you can drive a nail and have any nails to drive, drive them.”

Specifications: Typeset in Linotype Fairfield. Printed in black and warm grey on Arches Johannot mouldmade paper. One sheet printed ‘four-up’ and folded in a single signature trimmed to 15.6 × 25 cm. Bound with a three-hole stitch in a black Saint Armand Canal machine-made paper cover printed in transparent white and grey from wood and metal type. Issued in a black paper portfolio printed in opaque white.

8 pages + black endsheet
Limited edition of 50 numbered copies­
CND $60 + shipping & taxes

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