New World Saints, a collection of 24 spectacular hand-colored prints from drawings by Catherine Ferguson, with text by Spanish colonial scholar Dr. Donna Pierce. The portfolio includes paper triptychs that serve as shrines for the prints of saints whose popularity either traveled from the Old World to the New or originated in the Americas. Arched tops of the triptychs are handsomely embossed with a traditional scallop design and the double doors carry a biographical sketch or mythology of each of the saints found inside. This richly colorful iconographic celebration, five years in the making, is housed in a hand-bound, arched-top box lined with Italian printed papers and gold foil.

Click on the photograph for an enlarged view and a look at three prints from the folio.

1995 Edition limited to 140 signed and
 numbered copies
Text set in Dante
Prints on Domestic Etching paper
Triptychs, 9" x 14 1/2", Somerset cream  paper
Portfolio box hand bound in adobe colored  linen
Price $600

The Journal of José Salaices: Portrait of a Settler in Spanish Colonial New Mexico, by Diana Ortega DeSantis, reproduces the pages of this 18th century account along with translation, annotation, and text. José Salaices left the history of nearly thirty years of his life scrawled in fading, rust red ink over the surface of eight pages of paper barely measuring 6 by 4 inches. Yet, in this humble document he provides a wealth of information that only a handful of literate New Mexican settlers were capable of recording. DeSantis, who recently discovered the manuscript, uses it to transport the reader into frontier life in the late Spanish Colonial period. The book is highlighted with maps, charts, and drawings by Deborah Reade.

1998 Edition limited to 65 signed, numbered  copies
Text set in Joanna
Printed on handmade Moravia paper
Bound in handmade paper cases and vellum
Price $300

 
Southwest Writer
Harvey Fergusson:
A Collector's View and Checklist  Watch for this new Press of the Palace edition on the work of  Southwest writer Harvey Fergusson, to be released November, 2000.