33-C. The Buttonmaker Press (Donald W. Knoepfler)

Donald W. Knoepfler and DePol met in Madison, New Jersey at a workshop at Fairleigh Dickinson University, in 1983. In 1985, he invited DePol to teach a seminar at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, for which, DePol engraved a view of the university’s library. A subsequent visit to Knoepfler’s summer home in Indiana resulted in the discovery of an unpublished—and unfinished—manuscript by Mark Twain, Buttonmaker published in 1986, with DePol’s engravings, as The Quaker City Holy Land Excursion: an Unfinished Play by Mark Twain. DePol also engraved an illustration for a broadside, published in1987, of Frank O’Connor’s Kilcash, and the Press’s device.