28. Press of Appletree Alley (Barnard Taylor)

Barnard Taylor met DePol in 1951 in Maple Shade, NJ, and straightaway commissioned scenes of campus life for Lycoming College, Juniata College and Bucknell University. DePol engraved blocks for Juniata College in 1967-1975. In the 1980s, in affiliation with Bucknell University, Taylor founded the Press of Appletree Alley, a literary press affiliated with Bucknell University, and invited DePol to illustrate for him. The first of his four books: William Butler Yeats’s Ballylee, The Tower: Selections from the Tower Poems, appeared in 1983, followed by D.H. Lawrence’s The Man Who Loved Islands (1986), Wendell Berry’s Traveling at Home (1988), The Press of Appletree Alley, 1982-1992: A Keepsake to Mark the Anniversary (1992) and Louis Simpson’s Jamaica Poems (1993). DePol also engraved several printer’s devices for the press.