One white January morning I photographed Mary Logue’s house in the village of Stockholm, Wisconsin. The first section of our book would be titled “Winter,” and I thought an engraving of her house in winter should open the book.

In June the engraving was complete and I returned to the house. No one was home, so I took the liberty of wandering the grounds, taking pictures. This felt mildly intrusive and I was a bit uneasy when I noticed a woman waving from the garden of a house across the way. It was Mary Logue. I had the wrong house.

A House in the Country contains four essays by Mary Logue which document the trials of renovating her old Swedish farmhouse, and her observations on life in a small town in rural America. Bats and plaster lath fill her life with chaos and charm. Four multi-color wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec capture several of the buildings in this small Mississippi river town.

Designed and printed by Schanilec on Zerkall mould-made paper in a signed and numbered edition of 250 copies. 200 copies bound in cloth. 50 copies bound in quarter leather with paper covers marbled for the edition by Dana Brummitt. The leather edition is enclosed in a clamshell box with an unbound set of numbered prints and one extra print (the wrong house). The Walbaum type was composition-set by Michael Bixler. Bodoni and Stradivarius titling with Balle initials were added at Midnight Paper Sales. Hand-bound at the Campbell-Logan Bindery.

7 x 10 inches. 61 pages. 250 numbered copies signed by the author and artist.