Sylvæ LARGE PAPER EDITION
10 x 15 inches. 192 pages. 26 lettered copies. 53 relief prints (wood cuts and wood engravings). 25 wood specimens. With historical anecdotes by Benjamin Verhoeven, and production notes by Gaylord Schanilec. Text set in Bembo monotype, and printed on Twin Rocker hand-made paper. Images printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. Bound at Booklab 2 in a medieval style, laced board binding with quarter-sawn white oak boards and an alum-tawed goat skin spine.

Sylvæ - STANDARD EDITION
8 x 12 inches. 192 pages. 120 numbered copies. 53 relief prints (wood cuts and wood engravings). With historical anecdotes by Benjamin Verhoeven, and production notes by Gaylord Schanilec. Text set in Bembo monotype, and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. Bound at Booklab 2 in quartersawn white oak boards and an alum-tawed goat skin spine. Issued in a slipcase.

Twenty wooded acres surround Midnight Paper Sales in western Wisconsin. This book documents the journey of Ben Verhoeven and Gaylord Schanilec into the woods to create a work not only about these trees, but of these trees. In all 24 species have been catalogued through image, historical anecdotes, and notes taken during the cutting, milling, engraving and printing. The 53 images consist primarily of long grain and end grain specimens which have been taken from this property. In each case the image is manipulated through either color, impression, engraving, or some combination of the above to emphasize a certain characteristic of a species. The text varies as well from tree to tree, focusing on what role each played in the local history and in this project.

See Sylvæ, In-Progress reports 2006-2008, by Ben Verhoeven

See Sylvæ, An Adventure in Fine Printmaking illustrated story of the making of Sylvæ from The Bonefolder.