Billy Budd, Sailor.

Herman Melville.

Billy Budd, Sailor.

Northampton, MA:

The Pennyroyal Press,

2024

Utilizing the Melville Electronic Library reading text with fourteen woodcut illustrations by Barry Moser, 50 copies were printed by Bradley Hutchinson at his letterpress workshop in Austin, Texas. The Moser illustrations were composed and cut into plank grain heartwood cherry in 2023. The typeface is Jonathan David Rossís Pennyroyal, designed for Pennyroyal Press and inspired by the Doves types of Emery Walker and Cobden-Sanderson; bound by Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio in Austin. This exhibition not only inspired the Pennyroyal centenary edition but has also led to lasting friendships among its collaborators.

From the Collection of William Palmer Johnston.