[Rarebooks] For Sale: John DePol, Patterns

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John DePol (1913-2004).

Patterns: Drawn and Engraved on Wood. Introduction by Renée I. Weber. 
Appreciation by Don Wesely.

Council Bluffs, IA: The Yellow Barn Press, 1986.

8vo. 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches. (xvi), 39, 4 sample sheets tipped-onto 
un-numbered leaves, [1 colophon] pp. Half-title, title page with woodcut 
vignette, woodcut vignettes throughout the text, 39 pages reproduce in 
colors a variety of patterns engraved by DePol, 4 sample sheets in color 
tipped-in; text clean, unmarked. Blue cloth spine, patterned paper over 
boards, spine titled in silver, patterned paper end-papers; binding 
square and tight. Original prospectus included. Mel Kavin’s copy. 
KJH1123-062. Fine.

$200 plus $4 Media Mail, ordered through my website

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED to 150 copies, this is number 105, printed by 
Neil Shaver on a Vandercook Press using American Garamond (12-point 
Monotype), printed on Mohawk Superfine. Cover and end-sheet pattern 
papers are also reproduced in the text, bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery. 
This volume contains fifty-five of John DePol’s designs, each presented 
as a pattern, usually three patters to a two-page spread, all in color, 
in addition to the full-page tip-ins of patterns. Renée Weber 
contributed an introduction that traces the history of wood engraved 
pattern papers. REFERENCE: Walsdorf, The Yellow Barn Press, No. A8.


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