Windhover Press
The Catalog
Percival Stockdale: Samuel Johnson, and His Disgrace to English Literature
Windhover Press
Founded by Kim Merker in 1967, Windhover Press was the first University fine press. While most Windhover Press books have long been out of print, copies of the six listed here remain available.
For a bibliography of the Windhover Press, visit http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/Bai/amert.htm. A complete bibliography may be found in Sidney Berger's "Printing and the Mind of Merker: a Bibliographical Study," New York: Grolier Club, 1997.
PERCIVAL STOCKDALE: SAMUEL JOHNSON, AND HIS DISGRACE TO ENGLISH LITERATURE 1988
Introduction by Howard D. Weinbrot. This is a letter written from Percival Stockdale to Edward Jerningham in 1793, bemoaning Samuel Johnson’s “Lives of the Poets,” which Stockdale considered defective, dogmatic, arrogant and unjust. Stockdale later published his own version of literary history in 1807, “Lecture on the Truly Eminent English Poets.”250 copies, from Bembo types on Windhover paper, $15
TREMAYNE 1984
Four Poems by Donald Justice, and cover drawing by Laurence Donovan. 210 copies, $14.
Within the Walls, interior page
WITHIN THE WALLS 1993
Fourteen essays, memoirs, and sketches by HD (Hilda Doolittle), with wood engravings by Dellas Henke. This is a previously unpublished manuscript written in London in 1940 and 1941, during the worst period of the Battle of Britain. Machine-set in 14 pt Bembo types, the text was reset by hand and printed letterpress on dampened Johannot paper. The 35 engravings, some in two colors, were inked by hand and printed separately from the text. From an edition of 300, those numbered 1 through 275 were case bound, cloth over boards, at Campbell-Logan Bindery. 80 pages, 7 x 11, $145.
VASSAR VIEWED VERACIOUSLY 1995
16 Pencil Sketches by Wallace Stevens, with an introduction and notes by Dan Woodward. While visiting the campus of Vassar College on weekends, Wallace Stevens occupied himself by walking about the campus investigating Vassar’s cornucopia of architectural styles and making pencil sketches of what he saw. The edition of 350 copies was designed and printed by Janice Frey, Don Howell, Kim Merker, and Jim Snitzer. The text was printed at The Windhover Press in Romanée type on handmade Bibliophile Society paper, and the drawings were printed at the Offset Workshop on Mohawk Superfine Text. The binding was designed and executed by Larry Yerkes. 52 pages, 8 x 10, $65.
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