Abigail Rorer/The Lone Oak Press:
Extinct: The Western Black Rhinoceros

Poem by Don McKay
Engravings by Abigail Rorer

This book memorializes a sub-species of the black rhinoceros that lived in the Cameroon area of Africa and went extinct in 2011. With the rapid extinction of so many species each year we wanted to highlight the plight of one of the largest and most unique species on earth.

Don McKay, the renowned Canadian poet who has written much on the theme of nature and extinction, was commissioned to write a poem about the western black rhinoceros, and there are 21 relief engravings by Abigail Rorer, many of which are multi-block color with hand-coloring.

The book is printed in an edition of 70 copies with 56 standard copies in a slipcase and 14 deluxe copies in a special binding. The deluxe edition is sold out. The book measures 7 x 9 inches and has 52 pages. The text is set in Dante and Othello and printed on Zerkall Book at The Lone Oak Press by Abigail Rorer. The book is bound in a paper, created from a hand-drawn close-up image of rhinoceros skin, over boards with a stamped leather spine. The slipcase is bound in the same paper. Amy Borezo of Shelter Bookworks bound the books.”