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Why did you didn/t?: Expanded Quotables from the Year of 1979, by Ellen Lanyon. Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press, 1980.



Above: the cover of Why did you didn/t?: Expanded Quotables from the Year of 1979. The cover design was created by placing an opaque piece of paper with a cut-out on top of the illustration below.


Above: The only illustration besides the cover illustration from Why did you didn/t?: Expanded Quotables from the Year of 1979.

Below: The text opposite the above illustration.

The colophon states: "Here is another garrulous irreverent colophon for another high priced slender volume, the ninety-fourth since beginning in 1964. The text is composed of statements made by Laura Evans Hamady and several of her colleagues at the Children's Community School in Mt Horeb...we can reassure the reader that all 275 copies printed on dry variegated hand-made Roma paper from hand-set Sabon Antiqua foundry type have been conceived and executed in strict conformity with the principle of irregularity..." - Why did you didn/t?: Expanded Quotables from the Year of 1979.

 

Above: An example of the text from one page of The Life of Parts or, Thanking your for the Book on Building Birdfeeders. At the top of the page is the quote by printed in red ink, and at the bottom of the page is the text printed in black.


The Life of Parts or, Thanking your for the Book on Building Birdfeeders. Text by Robert Vas Dias, illustrations by Ellen Lanyon. Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press, 1972.

Below: The "facing illustration" opposite the above title page from The Life of Parts or, Thanking your for the Book on Building Birdfeeders.


Above: Another example of text from The Life of Parts or, Thanking your for the Book on Building Birdfeeders.

The colophon states: "The type is Sabon hand-set & printed on a variety of Japanese handmade papers."

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