Gun Plain Press

I've been experimenting with book forms that can be printed all on one sheet, and then cut and folded to make the separate pages. This is a Snake Book, so called because the pages follow an "S" path on the page, like a curving snake. This picture shows the sheet laid out flat, but once it is cut and folded up the pages all face one direction in the correct reading order. I decided to use a related subject matter, a poem about a snake by Emily Dickinson. The illustrations are a comic strip style, since it was fast and easy to do, and goes along with the "childhood innocence" theme of the poem. The illustrations on the covers (front cover shown above) are scanned from an old field guide. The book fully opened is on a sheet 14.5" x 9.5", which folds up to 4" x 3.25" once the covers are applied to the first and last page. This is a small edition, printed from an aluminum plate lithograph.