I'm sure you've heard about The Pictorial Webster's and have probably seen it passed around or own a copy yourself. If not, it's a visual dictionary, hundreds of pages of beautiful, antique engravings of animals, gadgets, and other goodies. Really neat.
the edition you may already know
But there's more to this story, which I learned from Kevin Mercer, a fellow printer who makes awesome posters, and that is that Pictorial Webster's started out as a small, handprinted, handbound, handeverything edition by Johnny Carrera of Quercus Press.
(just sayin')
Watch the video below, for an information and amazing description of the process that literally left me mouth agape.
I have been wanting a copy of this and now I'm in even deeper object-lust...thanks for posting ~g
ReplyDeleteThat was awesome, Marianne. I always thought what you did was totally cool, but to see all those beautiful tools and all those detailed steps to getting to a final product is amazing. And that guy, I just wanted to hug him!
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