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Copperhead Press

The Attack on the Mill — Prospectus

The Attack on the Mill — Prospectus

$20.00 USD
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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.

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Collaborators

Artist

Samuel Thomson  

Samuel Thomson is an Ottawa-based traditional printmaker and illustrator specializing in linocut. His passion for high-contrast, hard-carved imagery began at the Bealart program in London, Ontario, and has since grown into an independent practice.

foreword written by

Michael Von Cannon

Michael Von Cannon teaches modern American literature at Florida Gulf Coast University. He is the co-creator and producer of One True Podcast and is co-editing the final volumes of Hemingway's correspondence for the Hemingway Letters Project.

afterword written by

Mark Cirino

Mark Cirino teaches American literature at the University of Evansville. He is the host of the popular Hemingway Society-sponsored program, One True Podcast. His most recent publication is an edition of A Farewell to Arms edited for the Norton Library.