Hansel and Gretel





Hansel and Gretel
A FAIRY-TALE BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM⠀•⠀ILLUSTRATIONS BY LENA GONZALES
The second in our trio of Grimm stories. Children’s literature, and children’s illustration, have a way of teasing the divide between sweet innocence and sick brutality. It was a pleasure to work on this divide with my cousin Lena, a talented artist pursuing her BFA in illustration, fashioning something in the space between Handsel and Gretel’s airy reputation and the horror of this 1812 text.
COLOPHON
•⠀A chapbook from No Reply, 2 0 2 5.
•⠀Limited to 1 9 0 copies.
•⠀Measuring 6 by 9 inches and 2 0 pages.
•⠀Printed letterpress on a hand-operated Vandercook Universal I proofing press.
•⠀Flurry Coton text papers.
•⠀Five multi - color illustrations printed from polymer plates.
•⠀Typeset in 1 1 - point Joanna.
•⠀Sewn into paste paper wrapper, handmade at the press specially for the edition.