Oak Knoll

Private printed in an edition of 290 copies, of which this is one of 275 numbered Arabic copies available for sale. A fine copy in fine cloth slipcase. Designed and printed by hand at the direction of Andrew Hoyem and is the 100th production from the Arion Press.

"Included in the printing was Blake Riley, Brian Ferrett, Chris Godek, Mark Sarigianis, Lewis Mitchell, Sarah Songer, Rochelle Youk (who drew the grass for the title page and colophon), Leif Erlandsson, Thomas Gladysz, and Diana Ketcham. The types are Goudy Californian (designed for the University of California Press in 1938) for the text, and Trajan capitals, also by Frederic Goudy, for initial letters and titling. The poetry was set by hand from type freshly cast by Mackenzie & Harris; the introduction, preface, and subsidiary material were composed and cast at Monotype, also by M & H Type. The paper is handmade Langley, from the Barcham Green Mill in England, a special order in 1985, with watermakrs of the Press and the MIll. The printing was done on a Thomson Laureate letterpress with paper dampened. The edition is limited to 275 copies, numbered in Arabic, for sale and fifteen copies, numbered in Roman, for complimentary distribution." - Colophon

The book also contains the text of Ralph Waldo Emerson's July 21, 1855 letter to Whitman as well as a reproduction of the frontispiece presented in the 1855 first edition. This edition of the Leaves of Grass is considered to be one of the most desired titles from the Arion Press, and is one of the most beautifully-produced books of literary fine printing in 21st-century America.