Limited ed. of 125 numbered and 10 lettered artist's copies; Designed, printed and bound by Sandy Tilcock at Knight Library Press. Printed letterpress on Heine paper, using Bembo types monotype cast by Michael Bixler and then passed through the composing stick. The etchings are hand-colored by the artist. Calligraphic title, headings and ornaments by Marilyn Reaves. The cover was made by laminating two handmade papers: Moulin de Larroque's Brown and Twinrocker's Mica Rose --Colophon;Individual unsewn folios glued at the fore-edge and spine. Integral tab inserted into envelope-style cover wrapper. Leather strip closure;First published in the Fall 1997 issue of the Georgia review;U of O Rare Books has copy I, signed by the author and artist, Signed by the author and artist
Apologia has been made as a limited edition accordion book during the winter and spring of 1997. The text by Barry Lopez originally appeared in Witness magazine in 1989. The twenty-three woodblocks were carved on poplar by Robin Eschner, Forestville, California, over a period of six years. Charles Hobson, San Francisco, designed and organized the edition which has been printed letterpress on Stonehenge paper by Susan Acker at Feathered Serpent Press, Novato, California. The typefaces are Poppi-Laudatio Regular and Trajan. The woodblocks were editioned by Nora Pauwels at KALA Art Institute, Berkeley. John DeMerritt, Emeryville, California, hinged the text pages and bound the book in boards covered with Lami Li handmade paper and original USGS topographic maps of the State of Wyoming. Sandy Tilcock of lone goose press, Eugene, Oregon, made the boxes, and has published the book in an edition of fifty copies (numbered 1-50) with sixteen additional copies (lettered A-P) reserved for the participants. Enclosed in a folder on the back cover is a tire-tread print made on an original USGS topographic map of Wyoming by Barry Lopez with the assistance of Sandy Tilcock, using the inked tire of Barry's Toyota 4-Runner, the vehicle driven on the journey from Oregon to Indiana chronicled here --Colophon;Issued in case;Each page is accompanied by a transparent guard sheet;U of O Rare Books has copy no. 15 signed by the author and artist. The topographic map is also signed: Made with Barry's Toyota 4-Runner, Eugene, Oregon, January 16, 1997. Barry Lopez, Signed by the author and artist. The topographic map is also signed: Made with Barry's Toyota 4-Runner, Eugene, Oregon, January 16, 1997. Barry Lopez