“A light exists in Spring…” — poem by Emily Dickinson

In Spring is a beautiful, intriguing, elegant piece written in 1865 by the American poet Emily Dickinson. This tiny fine letterpress edition is the next booklet in a series celebrating Dickinson’s evocations of the seasons (the first was Into the Beautiful, on autumn). The poem is accompanied by two nature illustrations — young tulip poplar leaves were collected from the tree outside the print shop door, pressed and dried, and then hand-printed in pale greens. All in a miniature book, 2.5” x 3.5”.

• Handset in Bembo text types (cast by the Bixler Letterfoundry) and Civilité titling (ATF).

• Letterpress printed in two colors on the 1909 Golding Pearl foot-treadled press.

• Interior papers are Rives soft-white, with endpapers of Unryu mulberry, and jacket of St Armand handmade pale green.

• Illustrations hand-printed directly from dried tulip poplar leaves.

• Hand-sewn with Irish linen thread.

• Size: 2.5” tall x 3.5” wide

• Limited edition of 65 numbered copies.

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The complete poem, as sourced in Mabel Loomis Todd’s 1891 edition of Dickinson’s poems (public domain), is below. (A slightly different version can be found in R.W. Franklin’s edition of Dickinson’s works.)