Illustrated Books from The Porcupine's Quill
The Porcupine’s Quill has built, since 1974, an enviable reputation for expertise in the use of twentieth-century offset printing technology to replicate the quality look, and feel, of a nineteenth-century letterpress product. Most of the production work is completed at the shop on the Main Street of Erin Village, where books are printed on a twenty-five inch Heidelberg KORD, folded, and then sewn into signatures on a 1905 Model Smyth National Book sewing machine. The books of George A. Walker, Wesley Bates and G. Brender à Brandis are my personal faves.
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A Is for Alice
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Book of Hours
A Wordless Novel Told in 99 Wood Engravings
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Images from the Neocerebellum
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The Inverted Line
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The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson
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A Gathering of Flowers from Shakespeare
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A Wood Engraver's Alphabet
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Concord of Sweet Sounds
Musical Instruments in Shakespeare
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Wood Ink and Paper
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The Point of the Graver
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Beasts of New York
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Mother Goose Eggs
Sunnyside Up
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Wanderlust
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Back + Forth
A Novel in 90 Linocuts
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A Caledon Sketchbook
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Off the Wall
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Cells of Ourselves
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Let That Bad Air Out
Buddy Bolden's Last Parade
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South of North
Images of Canada
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An Illustrated Alphabet for the Illiterate
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