Booklets In Print
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The Printery has four booklets currently available for purchase. These are hand-sewn in paper wrappers and described in detail below.
2007 A True Depiction of all Manner of the Book Arts, 1568.
JOST AMMAN.
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Reproductions of 1568 woodcuts accurately depicting the draughtsman, wood-cutter, papermaker, printer, and bookbinder with each accompanied by period verse.
Displayed on the left is the cover and the title page. The two-page spread on the right shows the woodcuts of The Papermaker and The Printer.
Printed on Fabriano paper and sewn into marbled paper wrappers. 4″ x 6-1/4″. 16 pp. $18.00
(NOTE TO BINDERS: If you are interested in purchasing flat sheets of this piece, send us an email.)
2006 On Human Vanity
EUGENE FIELD.
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This French-fold piece is a poem describing the lesson in humility a poet learns from “an admirer.” Printed on Somerset Book employing Baskerville, Civilite, and Garamond types. This was printed as a contribution to the APHA 2006 Poetry Portfolio. A few additional copies were produced to assuage the printer’s vanity and they are offered for sale which will help assuage the printer’s finances! Shown here is the front cover. $11.50.
2005 The Mississippi
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Though the text of this piece discusses in unique, insightful ways, two great rivers, the Mississippi and the Missouri, the real story is about Freedom of the Press and Elijah P. Lovejoy’s fight to preserve this most sacred of rights.
Set in Frederic Goudy’s Ornate and Kennerley types and sewn into marbled paper wrappers. 5″ x 8-3/4″. 8 pp. $18.00.
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1998 My Book and Heart
EUGENE FIELD
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Being an excerpt from The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac with alphabet cuts and related couplets from the New England Primer, Field writes from the perspective of a 70-year-old book collector reminiscing about his first encounter with the Primer and a certain young lady named Captivity Waite. Shown here is the front cover, the title page, and an interior two-page spread.
Printed on Ingres Antique Eggshell with marbled endpapers and sewn into Roma wrappers. 24 pp. $17.50