Note: The $20 spent toward this prospectus will be deducted from your future order of this edition.
This four-page prospectus announces Copperhead Press's thirteenth publication: a fine press letterpress edition of Émile Zola's The Attack on the Mill, limited to fifty copies.
The prospectus is itself a carefully made object, limited to 110 copies. It has been printed letterpress on the same Crane's Lettra cotton paper that will be used in the edition and includes a tipped-in reproduction of a plate from Francisco de Goya's Disasters of War — the same series of images that will appear throughout the finished book. Also enclosed is a sample card bearing swatches of the burgundy Nappa lambskin and rainwater gray Italian bookcloth that will cover each copy of the edition.
The prospectus describes the edition in full, including its design, materials, and the thinking behind the pairing of Zola's text with Goya's prints.
