 [ Large Image ] | Still Deep and Sweet: Henry David Thoreau on Maple Sugaring Henry David Thoreau 2019 / Essay / $70.00 Fine / 32 pp Edition is out of print 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 book 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. This book was composed in Linotype Fairfield, with Russell Maret’s Baker capitals, and printed from the metal on a Vandercook proof press. J.J. Steeves’s illustration was printed from a photopolymer plate. The regular edition was printed on Stella Text, a cotton sheet originally milled by Turners Falls Paper for Harold Kyle. They were sewn into a paper cover and enfolded in a decorative wrapper. All aspects of the production of this edition were undertaken by Andrew Steeves. Limited edition of 100 copies. 32 pages. Small octavo. | Other Books by this Author |  | Shoe-strings Henry David Thoreau 2023 / Essay / $25.00 CAN Fine / 8 pp |  | A Button Intercepts the Light and Casts a Shadow Henry David Thoreau 2022 / Essay / $20.00 CAN Fine / 8 pp |  | Man is Altogether Too Much Insisted On Henry David Thoreau 2021 / / $25.00 CAN Fine / 8 pp |  | The Library a Wilderness Henry David Thoreau 2021 / Journal excerpts / $60.00 CAN Fine / 16 pp |  | Survey of a Swamp Henry David Thoreau 2019 / Essay / $25.00 CAN Fine / 8 pp |  | The Dream of the Toad Henry David Thoreau 2017 / Essay / $25.00 CAN Fine / 12 pp |  | Walking Henry David Thoreau 2009 / Essay / $150.00 CAN 9781554470495 / Fine / 96 pp |
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