The price is six hundred and seventy-five dollars plus twenty-five dollars for shipping and handling. The bindings come from the workshop of Priscilla Spitler in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. It measures 7 by 10.5 inches and consists of 128 pages on Zerkall and twenty-eight pages on Whatman. Blight (editor and introduction) ISBN Number. The marbled papers were made by the book’s printer, Tom Leech. Title: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave Author Name: Douglass, Frederick David W. The engravings are printed on a vintage mould-made sheet from the Whatman Paper Mills near Maidstone, England, founded in 1740. The text is printed on Zerkall Book, a mould-made paper from the Zerkall Paper Mills near Dueren, Germany, whose history dates back to the 16th Century.
The typeface, Pennyroyal Book, was designed by David Jonathan Ross especially for Pennyroyal Press and appears here for the first time. Douglass Narrative begins with the few facts he knows about his birth and parentage his father is a slave owner and his mother is a slave named Harriet.
Sixty copies of Frederick Douglass’ Narrative were printed for Pennyroyal Press by Thomas Leech and James Bourland at the Press at the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is also celebrating its 50th anniversary. Ten unnumbered copies have been reserved in sheets for bookbinders.
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