Ink on the Elbow [Design Binding]

Limited Edition/Unique. Hardcover. Conversations between David Esslemont & Gaylord Schanilec. Bound by David Esslemont. With an extra suite of the 15 color linocuts [one dup] titled and signed [some numered, some AP]. There are 6 original leaves tipped in: 4 from Esslemont's books and 2 from Schanilec's, including a 4-page leaf with color engraving of Manhattan from New York Revisited. ". . . an edited summary of their conversations over the past four years, telling of domestic problems . . . of printers' problems: of getting in materials, of making the presses work, of which inks to use." Shoulder notes clarify what might be obscure. Esslemont's visits to the Schanilec home in Wisconsin provided the inspiration for his color linocuts; Schanilec's visits and 6-month stay in Wales resulted in the 33-inch color engraving of the Esslemont homestead. A unique iteration of this relatively early work. Includes laid in note from Esslemont explaining history and location of other copies, and an additional suite of signed plates found only with this copy. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Full white alum-tawed goatskin, laminated bevelled boards, painting in acrylic ink, paste graining, and gold tooling, pastepaper flyleaves [inspired by the birch trees in Schanilec's yard]; housed in black cloth fleece lined drop-spine case, printed paper label at spine. 4to. 153pp. Illus. (14 color linocuts by Esslemont, 3 color wood engravings by Schanilec (including a 33-inch folding panorama), 10 tipped-in color ink jet images, and 6 original leaves). Numbered limited edition of 10 copies, this being 4 [entire run is 200]. Signed by both author/artists. This is the only copy to have the extra suite of plates. Fine in Fine Drop-Spine Archival Box.…