Frederick Douglass by Henry Louis Gates Jnr. - THORNWILLOW PRESS 2020
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1wcarter
Frederick Douglass, Portrait of a Free Man by Henry Louis Gates Jnr. - THORNWILLOW PRESS HALF-LEATHER LIMITED EDITION 2020
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No. 26 of 75 copies
Half bound in brown Morocco leather and printed paste paper boards.
Ten pages of bound-in photo plates.
Grey and black pattern printed endpapers.
Ruffled page edges.
Gilt page tops.
Presented in a suede-lined black clamshell box.
Signed by contributor and publisher.
Name included on the laid-in subscribers list.
246 pages
27x17.8cm.
US$653
Escaped slave, Frederick Douglass went on to become one of the USA’s most heralded social reformers.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
A PICTORIAL REVIEW
No. 26 of 75 copies
Half bound in brown Morocco leather and printed paste paper boards.
Ten pages of bound-in photo plates.
Grey and black pattern printed endpapers.
Ruffled page edges.
Gilt page tops.
Presented in a suede-lined black clamshell box.
Signed by contributor and publisher.
Name included on the laid-in subscribers list.
246 pages
27x17.8cm.
US$653
Escaped slave, Frederick Douglass went on to become one of the USA’s most heralded social reformers.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the this series can be viewed here.
3NathanOv
>1 wcarter: I love my half-clothe copy of this publication, and think it is such a prime example of what Thornwillow is best at - curating and contextualizing important works.
Using photographs of Douglass to illustrate the text, with essays on his status as the most photographed individual of the 19th century was an absolutely fantastic concept for a compilation with Douglass’s Narrative.
Using photographs of Douglass to illustrate the text, with essays on his status as the most photographed individual of the 19th century was an absolutely fantastic concept for a compilation with Douglass’s Narrative.
5DenimDan
Very nice paste papers for the boards and patterned endpapers. That looks like an elegant, tasteful binding. Parts of the design (especially the full title page and those chapter headings) remind me of the work of the Rampant Lions Press.
6whytewolf1
I have a copy of the sold-out half-cloth state, which is very nice. But this half-leather is just lovely.
7jveezer
Beautiful! I hope to get a half-leather Thornwillow edition some day and your pictures make me even more hopeful. Probably on a title I love enough to upgrade from my usual paper-wrapped. I'm in for half-cloth on Ulysses but only because it worked out cheaper than the paper-wrapped. I'm not sad about that...
8FvS
>1 wcarter: I love your pictorial reviews. I just found your index when I saw your recent post on their Donleavy book. Really well done. Thank you.
Love this book. Especially the endpaper. To my knowledge it's the only fine press edition of Frederick Douglass' Narrative. I also have a paper wrapper version of this title which I think is really wonderful. I like their paper wrapper editions a lot as a counter point to the leather editions.
Do you have any of the Thornwillow Dispatch titles? They are great and I think would be neat to feature in a review like yours. Some of the recent ones have been particularly strong IMO. And they sometimes do leather versions of them.
Love this book. Especially the endpaper. To my knowledge it's the only fine press edition of Frederick Douglass' Narrative. I also have a paper wrapper version of this title which I think is really wonderful. I like their paper wrapper editions a lot as a counter point to the leather editions.
Do you have any of the Thornwillow Dispatch titles? They are great and I think would be neat to feature in a review like yours. Some of the recent ones have been particularly strong IMO. And they sometimes do leather versions of them.
