Books

We carry a select number of titles about printing, typography, and the book arts.

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"Letterpress Printing, A Manual for Modern Fine Press Printers, by Paul Maravelas"
$39.95
BO65
Letterpress Printing is the comprehensive sourcebook for beginning and intermediate letterpress printers. Using clear explanations of technical terms and more than 80 illustrations, the manual describes presses, ink, paper, press operation, type and photopolymer plates. The book shows how to set up and run small and large platen presses, and Vandercook and Challenge-style hand cylinder presses. One chapter provides details about presses recommended by the author; another chapter explains how to equip and arrange a new letterpress shop. Also discussed is how to plan and design projects, how to move presses and equipment, and how to use lead and solvents safely. A discussion of recent trends helps the reader to understand the niche now occupied by the letterpress process and the techniques used by its practitioners. Includes one glossary of terms relating to paper, and another glossary of terms relating to printing. This is an up to date work for students and fine press printers wishing to sharpen their skills. Co-published by The British Library.
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"Letterpress Printing, A Manual for Modern Fine Press Printers, by Paul Maravelas, Softcover"
$24.95
BO65-SC
Letterpress Printing is the comprehensive sourcebook for beginning and intermediate letterpress printers. Using clear explanations of technical terms and more than 80 illustrations, the manual describes presses, ink, paper, press operation, type and photopolymer plates. The book shows how to set up and run small and large platen presses, and Vandercook and Challenge-style hand cylinder presses. One chapter provides details about presses recommended by the author; another chapter explains how to equip and arrange a new letterpress shop. Also discussed is how to plan and design projects, how to move presses and equipment, and how to use lead and solvents safely. A discussion of recent trends helps the reader to understand the niche now occupied by the letterpress process and the techniques used by its practitioners. Includes one glossary of terms relating to paper, and another glossary of terms relating to printing. This is an up to date work for students and fine press printers wishing to sharpen their skills. Co-published by The British Library.
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"Platen Press Operation, by George J. Mills, the classic book on letterpress printing on platens, softcover"

BO44
All copies are now sold out. A reprint is in the works and we hope to have that available sometime in 2008. The General Printing book, and that is in stock, covers much the same subject area. Cleeton, the main author of General Printing, had his office across the hall from George Mills' pressroom at Carnegie Tech, and so both men produced very useable and instructive books on letterpress in roughly the same time period. For a picture of Cleeton, see: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/84/248084905_b94a080512_o.jpg and for a picture of Mills, see: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3244/2330949980_b40a4e3d76_o.jpg with Mills on the right, and Ken Burchard on the left, at Carnegie Tech in 1963.
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