25. The Yellow Barn Press

DePol met Neil Shaver, the proprietor, in 1983 at the Book Arts Program at the Florham-Madison Campus Library of Fairleigh Dickinson University, and over the course of their association, commissioned over seventy engravings for his Yellow Barn Press, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Shaver said that, like most printers, he felt wood engraving was the “most compatible style of illustration for a seriously printed letterpress book.” Their collaborations were carried out long distance, through the mail. After 1983, they didn’t meet in person again until James H. Fraser once again brought them together in Madison in 1993.