The Rich Mouse by J.J.Lankes - TAMPA BOOK ARTS STUDIO 2015

The Rich Mouse by J.J.Lankes - TAMPA BOOK ARTS STUDIO 2015

A PICTORIAL REVIEW

LIMITED EDITION
No. 60 of 150 copies
The set contains the hardback letterpress printed edition of The Rich Mouse, and a digitally-printed paperback edition of The Rich Mouse Compendium.
Rich Mouse
Printed it on J. J. Lankes’s own Washington hand press using a fine all-cotton paper.
Five full page woodcuts plus two half page chapter end woodcuts.
Plain white endpapers.
Trimmed page edges.
Quarter bound in dark brown faux leather with boards covered with light brown decorated paper.
26 pages
Compendium
Compiled and edited by Richard Mathews.
Essays by Robert Oldham, Will Ransom, Joshua G Steward, Parker C Angelasto and Richard Mathews.
Integrated monochrome and colour illustrations.
Paperback bound in semi-gloss paper.
164 pages
Slipcase
Handmade brown heavy-card slipcover.
18.1x19.7cm.
US$185

Julius John Lankes (1884–1960) was a woodcut artist, author, and college professor from Buffalo, New York, perhaps best-known for his woodcut illustrations for first editions of Robert Frost, Sherwood Anderson, and other significant writers of his day.
The Rich Mouse, an allegorical fable emphasizing the snares of materialism versus the redeeming strength of love and forgiveness, written in 1950, but set aside and never published.







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Very nice! I wasn't familiar with that work, it looks quite charming. And love the bite on the letterpress, you can see it on the other side of some pages. The illustrations are lovely, too. Thanks for sharing!