Chester River Press

Just noticed an email from Oak Knoll Books about a new release from this press of what looks like a very nice edition of Homers Iliad and the Odyssey (Pope) . I see they also have an Letterpress edition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness .
Has anyone either of these editions and willing to share opinions or pictures ?

http://www.chesterriverpress.com/

Wow thanks for passing this along. Beautiful books, but rather interesting that they don't seem to be in limited edition.

Actually for the Conrad volume at least there is a further trail to follow .
It was produced for Chester River Press by another printer who has some more details about it ...

http://www.deepwoodpress.com/hod.html

I am seriously tempted for this one at least .

Thanks for the link keas. That presentation binding is absolutely amazing.

Wow! Those are amazing. I really like both of the editions but especially the price point on the Homer set. Never heard of this press but will keep my eye on them.

Ooh...I really like the edition of The Heights of Macchu Picchu shown on the home page. I'm a Neruda nut. If it was a bilingual edition I would have reached for my credit card. But I'm able to restrain myself without the Spanish text.

Don't ya just love it, an edition with 50, count 'em, 50 tipped in illustrations! I think the design concept of the urns with scenes representing specific points in the text is a great idea, done well, look at Achilles dragging Hector.

I was on the FPBA site the other day and saw some sharp Barry Moser engravings for a Shackman Press edition of a new Chekhov translation of some short stories done up in a volume titled Easter Week. Seeing these carefully lighted night time scenes, seeing the character's faces, makes me want to read the stories.

Would love to hear some opinions about these wood engravings for Chekhov- http://www.shackmanpress.com/

>8 olepuppy: Wow. Those are terrific. That would be high on my wish list.

Yes, those are wonderful. I have at times thought that Barry Moser was overrated, but these are fabulous. I wonder if the selection includes "The Lady with the Lapdog"?

Django, the book has only 2 stories, The Student and On Easter Eve.

On the strength of these engravings I recently bought the LEC Odyssey, but Moser's engravings there are reminiscent of his shadowy work on Allen Mandelbaum's Divine Comedy, tho not identical, and I think not appropriate, the Chester River Press vases much more capture the spirit of the book. The Arion/UCal Moby Dick I do like, tho I could wish that a portrait of Ahab in the style of the Chekhov book had been done, with a real face(like Gregory Peck's), unlike Kent's cartoon caricature.

>11 olepuppy:

I agree that Moser's illustrations for the Odyssey are disappointing--especially in light of what he achieved in the Chekov illustrations. Until I saw the Chester River book, I thought Moser just didn't have talent for portraiture.

That is my biggest complaint about not only the Odyssey, but Moser's Moby Dick work--and we are in complete agreement on how Rockwell Kent, so amazing with his action scenes, and whale and ship illustrations, completely muffed depicting Ahab. That is why, despite his other shortcomings, Boardman Robinson's illustrations for Moby Dick still hold pride of place--almost entirely because of his closeup portrait of Ahab.