Just got Ulrich Merkl's new oversize print tribute to Winsor McCay, Dream Of The Rarebit Fiend. The Volume is large, to accommodate the scale of the original printed pages and includes every RB strip Winsor ever made. I'm not a collector of unusual or rare books, just an admirer of McCay's prolific genius. Sunday Press has put this out, backed, I think, by Merkl himself. 2 years ago Sunday Press also put out the astounding, So Many Splendid Sundays, a compendium of Little Nemo in Slumberland. As it turns out the word, "Rarebit" is actually a Welsh recipe for Rabbit, which is sautéed and served with melted or toasted cheese on a toasted bread. Once the unsuspecting protagonists begin to digest this repast overnight, their dreams become the stuff of the Andalusian Dog or--considering the date of RF's publication,--more likely, the other way around. RF dates to the turn of the last century. I'm not sure I'm onboard with all the design choices made in the volume, but to a pen & inker like myself, there is a wealth of work to see. Below is the very first strip McCay made. His nom-de-plume at the time was, Silas.