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Showing posts with label Fine Printing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fine Printing. Show all posts
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Nice Ass, Great Binding

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by Stephen J. Gertz In 1904, publisher George Bell and Sons issued a beautifully designed and printed edition of the ancient classic...
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Friday, March 16, 2012

Some Very Special Bindings From Gwasg Gregynog Press

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by Stephen J. Gertz THOMAS. R.S. Laboratories of the Spirit. Newtown: Gwasg Gregynog, 1976 Number 5 of 15 copies signed by the author a...
Friday, December 16, 2011

Thereby Hangs a Quote, and a New, Must-Read Book on Books

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by Stephen J. Gertz When poet, master printer, and Perishable Press publisher Walter Hamady casually mentioned to master printer and Po...
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Monday, February 21, 2011

A Surprise for the Bagpipe Player (and Everyone Else): The Visual Poetry of Kenneth Patchen

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by Stephen J. Gertz Cover to A Surprise for the Bagpipe Player. Dadaist, Surrealist, Jazz poet, Beat poet, visual poet - Kenneth Patc...
Thursday, November 18, 2010

Journal of the Pilgrim Fathers a Reason to Give Thanks

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by Cokie Anderson Title page and frontispiece of the Golden Cockerel Press Pilgrim Fathers ( 1939) In Pertelote , the bibliography of th...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

"Men Are Wicked But Their Books Are Good"

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By Cokie Anderson The magnum opus of the Ashendene Press, Dante's Tutte le Opere The three great English private presses are consi...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

The "Other Man" Behind the Private Press Movement

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Walker, photographed by George Bernard Shaw. Photo courtesy of the Emery Walker Trust Many people have heard of William Morris. Those with a...
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Friday, September 10, 2010

Down With Industrialism! William Morris and the Private Press Revolt

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Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend (Kelmscott Press, 1892) The Industrial Revolution had a profound effect on the world of boo...