Fine Print Time Machine #7: Vol. 3, No. 1, January 1977
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1Glacierman
Previous Posts in this series:
# 1: Fine Print Time Machine: 1975 (Vol. 1, Nos. 1 & 2)
# 2: Fine Print Time Machine: 1975 (Vol. 1, Nos. 3 & 4)
# 3: Fine Print Time Machine: 1976 (Vol. 2, No. 1)
# 4: Fine Print Time Machine: 1976 (Vol. 2, No. 2)
# 5: Fine Print Time Machine: 1976 (Vol. 2, No. 3)
# 6: Fine Print Time Machine: 1976 (Vol. 2, No. 4)
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These things take a long time to put together and LT doesn’t track views, only posts, so I’m not sure who, if anyone outside of Shadekeep and a couple of others, finds them useful. If you find these posts useful/of interest and want to see them continue, please post a short response to let me know I’m not wasting my time. Thanks!
And a big THANK YOU to Mr. Philistine for an able assist with the linked index. Saved me some time & hassle.
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The focus for this issue was bookbinding and the two main articles are on that subject: the first is by noted English binder Philip Smith titled Balancing the Books. Notes on Two Different Worlds of Bookbinding, and The Book as an Æsthetic Object by David Greenhood which was, in fact, the conclusion to his essay the first part of which appeared in the October 1976 issue (V2, N4).
Selected Press Books. These get a detailed review.
The Allen Press (Kentfield, CA). John Dryden. Antony / A Romantic Tragedy, the Masterpiece of John Dryden / Antony / All For Love / Cleopatra. 13½ x 9¼ in.; 100 pp; 140 copies. Menhart Uncial for text, Hadriano for display, both hand set. Bespoke handmade all-rag paper from Cuthberts Mill, England, with AP watermark. Printed damp on a Columbian. Extensively decorated with hieroglyphs; illustrations of Egyptian gods. Ecru cloth binding, slipcase lettered in red Pompeii type on spine; slipcase. $120.
The Plain Wrapper Press (Verona, Italy).
Jorge Luis Borges. Siete Poemas Sajones / Seven Saxon Poems / Impressions by Arnaldo Pomodoro. 15-5/8 x 11-5/8 in.; 37 pp; 100 copies numbered in arabic and 20 in roman. Printed on a Washington hand-press by Richard Gabriel-Rummonds (of course!). Type is hand set Horizon Light. Printed on dampened handmade paper from the Richard de Bas Mill in Ambert, France. Full mottled parchment binding inset with three gold-plated sculptured strips of bronze; e/p brown Fabriano; enclosed in a two-piece brown silk-covered wooden case with upper part of case covered by an etched brass plate with a low relief sculpture in the center. $2000.
Laure Verneire. Géographie du Regard. 8-1/8 x 11½ in; 47 pp; 71 numbered/signed copies. Type hand set Post Mediæval; paper dampened handmade Richard de Bas. Bonnie Walker marbled the Canson paper used for the covers. Qtr. Vellum with rust and brown boards; orange endpapers. $145.
(All three books reviewd by Anthony Rota.)
Stamperia Valdonega (Verona, Italy). Tennessee Williams. Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965. 9-5/8 x 6-5/8 in; 333 pp; 500 numbered copies on Favini paper and 26 copies lettered A-Z on blue Fabriano paper. Printed for Sandy Campbell under supervision of Martino Mardersteig. September 1976. Numbered copies in white wraps & an acetate d/j; cloth slipcase. $50; lettered copies $150.
Recent Press Books
Adagio: The Private Press of Leonard F. Bahr (Harper Woods, MI). Leonard F. Bahr, comp. TypoGraphia 1. 1976. 9½ x 6¼; 28 pp; 325 copies. Printed in three colors in a multitude of types, this is a collection of typographic exercises interspersed with notes on printing, typography, and the private press. Printed on Mohawk Superfine High Finish, blue and gold Strathmore self wrappers. $12.50.
The Bieler Press (Poynette, WI). Albert Drake. Roadsald (poem). 1976. 8-7/8 x 6¼ in; 20 pp.; 150 signed copies. Illus. Cathie Ruggie. Printed by Gerald Lange in hand set Weiss and Broadway display types in brown on Frankfurt Creme paper. Self wrappers of grey Bieler handmade paper. $15.
Black Stone Press (Peter Koch & Shelley Hoyt-Koch, Missoula, MT). Jane Bailey. Pomegranate. 8½ x 5-3/8 in; 28 pp; 175 copies in wraps, $3.50; 25 copies bound by Shelley Hoyt-Koch in cloth, $8.50. Second book from this press. (Hardesty, Small Presses, p. 35)
The Brandstead Press (Carlisle, Ontario). R. J. Tremain. Notes From Stone Voices (poems). 1976. 8-1/8 x 5½ in; 120 copies. 17 wood engravings by G. Brender à Brandis. Kennerly Old Style italic on Crown Rag paper. Bound in Russian linen tie-dyed in shades of orange and rust by Norma Waters. $45 plus $5 for optional slipcase.
The Compton Press, Ltd. (Tisbury, Wilts., England). Jeremy Gunn. Lights Out (poems). 8¾ x 5-3/8 in; 71 pp.; 205 copies. Baskerville with Bell italic titles on Strathmore Artlaid paper. Vellum paper spine with red and brown marbled Cockerell paper boards.
Joseph J. D’Ambrosio (Chicago, IL). J. J. D’Ambrosio Trapeze. 1976. 10-7/8 x 8-1/8 in; 37 pp; 50 copies. 17 signed, colored serigraphs and on block print. Centaur with chapter titles in P. T. Barnum type on Rives BFK paper. Printed by Elmore Mundell, The Compulsive Printer. Full tan leatherett, upper cover a recessed box with hand-painted pictorial of circus tent with binding strings exiting through cover pictorial to from ropes of circus tent; open-ended slipcase covered with Japanese mulberry paper. $85.00. “Mr. D’Ambrosio is a daring and creative practitioner of the book arts, but seeks to put very complex ideas into execution with limited experience in the book form. His intricate bindings require the attention of a professional binder.”
Taller Martín Pescador (Juan Pascoe, México DF).
Roberto Bolano. Reinventar el amor (poem). 1976. 9-7/8 x 7-1/8 in; 20 pp; 225 copies. Set in Goudy Garamond and printed on Fabriano Ingres. Sewn blue wrappers with woodcut in black on upper cover. $4.
José Antonio Montero. Cepo de plumas (poems). 1976. 6-7/8 x 6½ in; 47 pp; 290 copies total edition. 7 drawings by the author. Goudy Garamond type on Canson Ingres paper. 230 copies, red wrappers, $4; 48 copies, qtr. vellum with sage green boards & pasted label on upper cover, $12.50; 12 copies, leather with burnished etching, $80. Leather & vellum bindings by Jean Millioud. “Interesting design with narrow text body run high or low on the page with wide side margins. Illustrations composed of suggestive forms and lines are well placed. Uneven presswork.”
Poltroon Press, (Berkeley, CA). Thomas Love Peacock. Cimmerian Lodge. 1976. 10¼ x 7¼ in; 20 pp; 100 copies. Baskerville type on Basingwerk paper; bound in cloth with turquoises and white bullfrog pattern by Francis Butler. $15. The reviewer loved this one.
Windhover Press, (Iowa City, IA). Philip Levine. The Names of the Lost. 1976. 11½ x 6½ in; 69 pp; 200 signed copies. Bembo, Lutetia and Romanée types on handmade Fabriano Book paper. Black cloth binding with three blind strips on upper cover, pasted label in red and black on spine. $21. Of course, the reviewer loved this one, too!
Bird in Hand Press, San Francisco, CA.
St. Francis of Assissi. As Far As I Can and More Than I Can. 6 x 4-5/8 in; 33 pp; 225 copies. Small color linocuts. Goudy Thirty, Goudy Text and Centaur types; qtr. cloth. $5
William Claire. To Break the Shell. 9¾ x 6-3/8 in; 23 pp.; 200 copies. Frontispiece, ornaments; Centaur and Arrighi types on Warren’s Olde Style paper. Qtr. cloth. $10.
Caldwell Press, Kingston, Jamaica. Barry Higman, ed. Characteristic Traits of the Creolian and African Negroes in Jamaica etc. etc.. 9½ 6¼ in.; 23 pp; 300 copies. Handset in 12 pt. Bembo. Orange wrappers. $5.
The Huckleberry Press, Salem, Oregon. Kay Carter Doughton. Of Love and Things. 8¾ x 5¾; 41 pp, 50 copies. Wood-engraved vignettes. Handset in Recherche type. Qtr. cloth and leatherette. $9.
Rather Press, Oakland, CA. Lois Rather. Lovely Isadora Isadora Duncan. 10¾ x 6¾; 124 pp;150 copies. One photo and two drawings. Centaur and Arrighi types on Tweedweave paper. Quarter cloth. $20.
The Vintage Press, Molalla, Oregon. A Specimen of Printing Types. 8¾ x 5¾ in.; 93 pp; 52 copies; full leatherette binding. $15.
The Woodbine Press, Riverside, RI. Alexandra Grihkes. Sea Agon. 9 x 6 in; 34 pp; 320 copies total; handset in Times Roman on Warren’s Olde Style paper. Glossy white wrappers (300 cc), $3.50; 20 hardbound, $8. A poem.
It was noted that the Stanbrook Abbey Press celebrated its 100th anniversary as well as its 20th under the guidance of Dame Hildelith Cumming. A centennial book, The Mother’s Birds by Meinrad Craighead was issued. It is a book of haiku with 20 charcoal drawings; limited to 170 copies: 30 on handmade paper, signed, full leather with slipcase, $100; 50 signed, quarter leather, $50; 90 in mould-made wrappers, $20.
New Presses Briefly Noted
Bud Wesreich, Press of Arden Par, Sacremento, CA. First book: Your Dead Cease to Live You. Printed on a 9 x 12 Craftsman hand press and a no. 4 Vandercook.
Robert Denham, Iron Mountain Press, Emory, Virginia. Does his own typesetting, printing and binding and uses an old Chandler & Price 8 x 10.
Establishment of Taller Martín Pescador noted. Startin out with a Washington handpress of 1840 and a Vandercook.
Works in Progress. Short title list.
five Tress Press, SF, CA. Meditations for Solo Voice by Denise Levertov.
The Gruffyground Press, Winscombe, Somerset, England. Shakesepeare’s The Phoenix and the Turtle set in Granjon’s St. Augustin Lettre Françoise of about 1562.
The Heron Press, Boston, MA. Opera Brevis, fantasy play by John Wellman with etchings and drypoints by Bruce Chandler. AND A Meditation on Charles Ives, a poem by Mark Weiss, AND Occasion of Grace, a gathering of poems by David Glotzer.
The Iron Mountain Press, Emory, Virginia. Women and Children First, a chapbook of poems by Ann Deagon.
Main Street, Inc., Northhampton, MA. Announcing a new series of signed first edition poetry books written by major poets; small editions of less than 75 copies, design & illustrations by Barry Moser and bindings by David Bourbeau of the Thistle Bindery.
The Penmaen Press, Lincoln, MA. Voltaire’s poem on the Lisbon disaster. (This is a marvelous book!)
W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, TX. Flyleaves, “an extraordinary quasi-autobiography” of Bernard Shaw created through his incriptions on the flyleaves of the most significant volumes. 350 copies to be printed letterpess on Curtis Rag paper by Henry Morris and the Bird & Bull Press, with two facsimiles, $45.
# 1: Fine Print Time Machine: 1975 (Vol. 1, Nos. 1 & 2)
# 2: Fine Print Time Machine: 1975 (Vol. 1, Nos. 3 & 4)
# 3: Fine Print Time Machine: 1976 (Vol. 2, No. 1)
# 4: Fine Print Time Machine: 1976 (Vol. 2, No. 2)
# 5: Fine Print Time Machine: 1976 (Vol. 2, No. 3)
# 6: Fine Print Time Machine: 1976 (Vol. 2, No. 4)
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NOTE:
These things take a long time to put together and LT doesn’t track views, only posts, so I’m not sure who, if anyone outside of Shadekeep and a couple of others, finds them useful. If you find these posts useful/of interest and want to see them continue, please post a short response to let me know I’m not wasting my time. Thanks!
And a big THANK YOU to Mr. Philistine for an able assist with the linked index. Saved me some time & hassle.
=========
The focus for this issue was bookbinding and the two main articles are on that subject: the first is by noted English binder Philip Smith titled Balancing the Books. Notes on Two Different Worlds of Bookbinding, and The Book as an Æsthetic Object by David Greenhood which was, in fact, the conclusion to his essay the first part of which appeared in the October 1976 issue (V2, N4).
Selected Press Books. These get a detailed review.
The Allen Press (Kentfield, CA). John Dryden. Antony / A Romantic Tragedy, the Masterpiece of John Dryden / Antony / All For Love / Cleopatra. 13½ x 9¼ in.; 100 pp; 140 copies. Menhart Uncial for text, Hadriano for display, both hand set. Bespoke handmade all-rag paper from Cuthberts Mill, England, with AP watermark. Printed damp on a Columbian. Extensively decorated with hieroglyphs; illustrations of Egyptian gods. Ecru cloth binding, slipcase lettered in red Pompeii type on spine; slipcase. $120.
The Plain Wrapper Press (Verona, Italy).
Jorge Luis Borges. Siete Poemas Sajones / Seven Saxon Poems / Impressions by Arnaldo Pomodoro. 15-5/8 x 11-5/8 in.; 37 pp; 100 copies numbered in arabic and 20 in roman. Printed on a Washington hand-press by Richard Gabriel-Rummonds (of course!). Type is hand set Horizon Light. Printed on dampened handmade paper from the Richard de Bas Mill in Ambert, France. Full mottled parchment binding inset with three gold-plated sculptured strips of bronze; e/p brown Fabriano; enclosed in a two-piece brown silk-covered wooden case with upper part of case covered by an etched brass plate with a low relief sculpture in the center. $2000.
Laure Verneire. Géographie du Regard. 8-1/8 x 11½ in; 47 pp; 71 numbered/signed copies. Type hand set Post Mediæval; paper dampened handmade Richard de Bas. Bonnie Walker marbled the Canson paper used for the covers. Qtr. Vellum with rust and brown boards; orange endpapers. $145.
(All three books reviewd by Anthony Rota.)
Stamperia Valdonega (Verona, Italy). Tennessee Williams. Letters to Donald Windham, 1940-1965. 9-5/8 x 6-5/8 in; 333 pp; 500 numbered copies on Favini paper and 26 copies lettered A-Z on blue Fabriano paper. Printed for Sandy Campbell under supervision of Martino Mardersteig. September 1976. Numbered copies in white wraps & an acetate d/j; cloth slipcase. $50; lettered copies $150.
Recent Press Books
Adagio: The Private Press of Leonard F. Bahr (Harper Woods, MI). Leonard F. Bahr, comp. TypoGraphia 1. 1976. 9½ x 6¼; 28 pp; 325 copies. Printed in three colors in a multitude of types, this is a collection of typographic exercises interspersed with notes on printing, typography, and the private press. Printed on Mohawk Superfine High Finish, blue and gold Strathmore self wrappers. $12.50.
The Bieler Press (Poynette, WI). Albert Drake. Roadsald (poem). 1976. 8-7/8 x 6¼ in; 20 pp.; 150 signed copies. Illus. Cathie Ruggie. Printed by Gerald Lange in hand set Weiss and Broadway display types in brown on Frankfurt Creme paper. Self wrappers of grey Bieler handmade paper. $15.
Black Stone Press (Peter Koch & Shelley Hoyt-Koch, Missoula, MT). Jane Bailey. Pomegranate. 8½ x 5-3/8 in; 28 pp; 175 copies in wraps, $3.50; 25 copies bound by Shelley Hoyt-Koch in cloth, $8.50. Second book from this press. (Hardesty, Small Presses, p. 35)
The Brandstead Press (Carlisle, Ontario). R. J. Tremain. Notes From Stone Voices (poems). 1976. 8-1/8 x 5½ in; 120 copies. 17 wood engravings by G. Brender à Brandis. Kennerly Old Style italic on Crown Rag paper. Bound in Russian linen tie-dyed in shades of orange and rust by Norma Waters. $45 plus $5 for optional slipcase.
The Compton Press, Ltd. (Tisbury, Wilts., England). Jeremy Gunn. Lights Out (poems). 8¾ x 5-3/8 in; 71 pp.; 205 copies. Baskerville with Bell italic titles on Strathmore Artlaid paper. Vellum paper spine with red and brown marbled Cockerell paper boards.
Joseph J. D’Ambrosio (Chicago, IL). J. J. D’Ambrosio Trapeze. 1976. 10-7/8 x 8-1/8 in; 37 pp; 50 copies. 17 signed, colored serigraphs and on block print. Centaur with chapter titles in P. T. Barnum type on Rives BFK paper. Printed by Elmore Mundell, The Compulsive Printer. Full tan leatherett, upper cover a recessed box with hand-painted pictorial of circus tent with binding strings exiting through cover pictorial to from ropes of circus tent; open-ended slipcase covered with Japanese mulberry paper. $85.00. “Mr. D’Ambrosio is a daring and creative practitioner of the book arts, but seeks to put very complex ideas into execution with limited experience in the book form. His intricate bindings require the attention of a professional binder.”
Taller Martín Pescador (Juan Pascoe, México DF).
Roberto Bolano. Reinventar el amor (poem). 1976. 9-7/8 x 7-1/8 in; 20 pp; 225 copies. Set in Goudy Garamond and printed on Fabriano Ingres. Sewn blue wrappers with woodcut in black on upper cover. $4.
José Antonio Montero. Cepo de plumas (poems). 1976. 6-7/8 x 6½ in; 47 pp; 290 copies total edition. 7 drawings by the author. Goudy Garamond type on Canson Ingres paper. 230 copies, red wrappers, $4; 48 copies, qtr. vellum with sage green boards & pasted label on upper cover, $12.50; 12 copies, leather with burnished etching, $80. Leather & vellum bindings by Jean Millioud. “Interesting design with narrow text body run high or low on the page with wide side margins. Illustrations composed of suggestive forms and lines are well placed. Uneven presswork.”
Poltroon Press, (Berkeley, CA). Thomas Love Peacock. Cimmerian Lodge. 1976. 10¼ x 7¼ in; 20 pp; 100 copies. Baskerville type on Basingwerk paper; bound in cloth with turquoises and white bullfrog pattern by Francis Butler. $15. The reviewer loved this one.
Windhover Press, (Iowa City, IA). Philip Levine. The Names of the Lost. 1976. 11½ x 6½ in; 69 pp; 200 signed copies. Bembo, Lutetia and Romanée types on handmade Fabriano Book paper. Black cloth binding with three blind strips on upper cover, pasted label in red and black on spine. $21. Of course, the reviewer loved this one, too!
Bird in Hand Press, San Francisco, CA.
St. Francis of Assissi. As Far As I Can and More Than I Can. 6 x 4-5/8 in; 33 pp; 225 copies. Small color linocuts. Goudy Thirty, Goudy Text and Centaur types; qtr. cloth. $5
William Claire. To Break the Shell. 9¾ x 6-3/8 in; 23 pp.; 200 copies. Frontispiece, ornaments; Centaur and Arrighi types on Warren’s Olde Style paper. Qtr. cloth. $10.
Caldwell Press, Kingston, Jamaica. Barry Higman, ed. Characteristic Traits of the Creolian and African Negroes in Jamaica etc. etc.. 9½ 6¼ in.; 23 pp; 300 copies. Handset in 12 pt. Bembo. Orange wrappers. $5.
The Huckleberry Press, Salem, Oregon. Kay Carter Doughton. Of Love and Things. 8¾ x 5¾; 41 pp, 50 copies. Wood-engraved vignettes. Handset in Recherche type. Qtr. cloth and leatherette. $9.
Rather Press, Oakland, CA. Lois Rather. Lovely Isadora Isadora Duncan. 10¾ x 6¾; 124 pp;150 copies. One photo and two drawings. Centaur and Arrighi types on Tweedweave paper. Quarter cloth. $20.
The Vintage Press, Molalla, Oregon. A Specimen of Printing Types. 8¾ x 5¾ in.; 93 pp; 52 copies; full leatherette binding. $15.
The Woodbine Press, Riverside, RI. Alexandra Grihkes. Sea Agon. 9 x 6 in; 34 pp; 320 copies total; handset in Times Roman on Warren’s Olde Style paper. Glossy white wrappers (300 cc), $3.50; 20 hardbound, $8. A poem.
It was noted that the Stanbrook Abbey Press celebrated its 100th anniversary as well as its 20th under the guidance of Dame Hildelith Cumming. A centennial book, The Mother’s Birds by Meinrad Craighead was issued. It is a book of haiku with 20 charcoal drawings; limited to 170 copies: 30 on handmade paper, signed, full leather with slipcase, $100; 50 signed, quarter leather, $50; 90 in mould-made wrappers, $20.
New Presses Briefly Noted
Bud Wesreich, Press of Arden Par, Sacremento, CA. First book: Your Dead Cease to Live You. Printed on a 9 x 12 Craftsman hand press and a no. 4 Vandercook.
Robert Denham, Iron Mountain Press, Emory, Virginia. Does his own typesetting, printing and binding and uses an old Chandler & Price 8 x 10.
Establishment of Taller Martín Pescador noted. Startin out with a Washington handpress of 1840 and a Vandercook.
Works in Progress. Short title list.
five Tress Press, SF, CA. Meditations for Solo Voice by Denise Levertov.
The Gruffyground Press, Winscombe, Somerset, England. Shakesepeare’s The Phoenix and the Turtle set in Granjon’s St. Augustin Lettre Françoise of about 1562.
The Heron Press, Boston, MA. Opera Brevis, fantasy play by John Wellman with etchings and drypoints by Bruce Chandler. AND A Meditation on Charles Ives, a poem by Mark Weiss, AND Occasion of Grace, a gathering of poems by David Glotzer.
The Iron Mountain Press, Emory, Virginia. Women and Children First, a chapbook of poems by Ann Deagon.
Main Street, Inc., Northhampton, MA. Announcing a new series of signed first edition poetry books written by major poets; small editions of less than 75 copies, design & illustrations by Barry Moser and bindings by David Bourbeau of the Thistle Bindery.
The Penmaen Press, Lincoln, MA. Voltaire’s poem on the Lisbon disaster. (This is a marvelous book!)
W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, TX. Flyleaves, “an extraordinary quasi-autobiography” of Bernard Shaw created through his incriptions on the flyleaves of the most significant volumes. 350 copies to be printed letterpess on Curtis Rag paper by Henry Morris and the Bird & Bull Press, with two facsimiles, $45.
2wcarter
>1 Glacierman: Your efforts are appreciated.
4ChestnutPress
I enjoy seeing them, but I wonder if enough others do to warrant such efforts. Hopefully, a sizeable number of replies here will let you know your considerable efforts aren’t wasted.
5DenimDan
I'm a fan of this series. It's great to see the output from presses, both those that most of us know and others that didn't make a big splash. I had no idea that "Seven Saxon Poems" retailed for $2,000!
Those essays on bookbinding sound pretty fascinating. Not sure how well known Philip Smith is outside the niche world of artist's books, but his work is worth checking out. He was a major influence on Tim Ely:
https://www.philipsmithbookart.com/gallery/gallery_1.html
Those essays on bookbinding sound pretty fascinating. Not sure how well known Philip Smith is outside the niche world of artist's books, but his work is worth checking out. He was a major influence on Tim Ely:
https://www.philipsmithbookart.com/gallery/gallery_1.html
6GardenOfForkingPaths
>1 Glacierman: I am very much enjoying these posts and then exploring these presses and their works. Thank you for your work on this!
>5 DenimDan: The Plain Wrapper Press "Seven Saxon Poems" looks incredible. Do you own this or have you seen it in person? The historic auction results for this book are quite eye-watering!
>5 DenimDan: The Plain Wrapper Press "Seven Saxon Poems" looks incredible. Do you own this or have you seen it in person? The historic auction results for this book are quite eye-watering!
8kcshankd
Echoing the above sentiments, these posts are fantastic. I have made one purchase so far because of earlier threads, and there will no doubt be more to follow.
They are a tremendous resource for those of us newer to the fine press world.
They are a tremendous resource for those of us newer to the fine press world.
9DenimDan
>6 GardenOfForkingPaths: I've never handled this one, but there are a lot of very good images online. I have looked at a couple other Plain Wrapper titles in libraries. I almost bought a copy of "Will and Testament" (1977) a few times. "Seven Saxon Poems" looks downright monumental.
>1 Glacierman: Gotta love fine press writers/editors, both announcing the opening of Taller Martín Pescador and criticizing their presswork in the same issue.
Does anyone on LT collect Joseph D’Ambrosio books? The title reviewed in this issue, Trapeze, looks very interesting.
>1 Glacierman: Gotta love fine press writers/editors, both announcing the opening of Taller Martín Pescador and criticizing their presswork in the same issue.
Does anyone on LT collect Joseph D’Ambrosio books? The title reviewed in this issue, Trapeze, looks very interesting.
10Glacierman
>5 DenimDan: Philip Smith's book New Directions in Bookbinding is a goldmine. in it, he details several innovative techniques he developed. Anyone interested in hand binding should peruse this volume. He is likely most well-known for his "book wall" presentations, especially several done with the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings. Here is an article about them: LotR book wall
11SebRinelli
>1 Glacierman: I enjoy them, too!
13Glacierman
>12 wcarter: Oh! Nice. Danke Mein Herr.
14wcarter
Can you make the list at >1 Glacierman: into live links?
15Glacierman
>14 wcarter: They are live as of earlier today.
16Glacierman
I added a link to an article on Philip Smith's Lord of the Rings book walls to post no. 10 above. Check it out!
18wcarter
>15 Glacierman:
Thanks. That's great!
Thanks. That's great!
19Lukas1990
Wow, Seven Saxon Poems looks special! It is included in the Century for Century list of 100 books.
20Glacierman
Well, I'll keep 'em coming, then!
21Chemren
>19 Lukas1990: Out of curiosity I plugged $2000 into the inflation calculator and got almost $11,000 now. Auction prices seem to be keeping up with inflation. Pricey then and pricey now.
It does look like an incredible book.
It does look like an incredible book.
22Shadekeep
>1 Glacierman: Splendid stuff as usual, mate! It's like walking a shop of dreams, seeing so many of these presses mentioned as new offerings. Particularly wonderful to see Plain Wrapper Press in its heyday with these titles, as well as our friends at Black Stone, Windhover, Poltroon, and Gruffyground.
The only thing I have from this slate besides the Gruffyground is Bieler's Roadsalt. The Antony from Allen Press sounds gorgeous (of course), I'll be looking into that one. Also plan to check out Woodbine Press, they sound intriguing (and some of the minor-press poetry from this period is astoundingly good).
The only thing I have from this slate besides the Gruffyground is Bieler's Roadsalt. The Antony from Allen Press sounds gorgeous (of course), I'll be looking into that one. Also plan to check out Woodbine Press, they sound intriguing (and some of the minor-press poetry from this period is astoundingly good).
23ChestnutPress
>22 Shadekeep: I doubt you have the Gruffyground edition that is mentioned there as it is extremely rare. It isn’t the one eventually printed by Bieler Press for Gruffyground, but the much earlier version by Sem Hartz at Tuinwijkpers that was rejected and sent back to the printer, who issued copies himself. If you do have a copy of the Tuinwijkpers version then you’re very fortunate indeed!
24Shadekeep
>23 ChestnutPress: Aye, I believe it's the Bieler edition as I bought it from Anthony rather late in the game.
25Lukas1990
How about a Roman Numeral edition of Seven Saxon Poems for sale?
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?utm_source=vialibri&utm_mediu...
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?utm_source=vialibri&utm_mediu...
