The Boreas Press, an old but hitherto woefully unproductive printery, began life in the Art Department of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, under the tutelage of Philip Hamilton, when the proprietor, Robert Karrow, was a student in the Library School. There it produced, in 1971 on a Vandercook proof press, a small book and a smaller pamphlet. Since moving to the Chicago area in the same year, the equipment has been limited to a Showcard 8” x 10” press and production to the occasional linoblock print. In 2003, the press published Russell Fee’s A Dash of Expectations (Poems of the Classroom) in a small photocopied edition. The proprietor spent some years designing a home-built press on Vandercook lines and in 2022 actually made a few impressions. But it needed some more work and when he moved to smaller quarters he was forced to abandon the project. With access to his friend Doug’s manuscript and the advent of on-demand publishing, the proprietor was eager to resuscitate the Press and the current 900-page book is the weighty result. The Press shares space with the proprietor’s Phœnix Bindery.