American Fine Printing (2 results)

A beautiful compilation of fine printing from students in American River College's Historic Press class, 1986. Printers include Dianna Woods, E. R. Callison, Vince Lozito, Fred Gunsky, John White, and instructor, Jean Pratt. The projects were all printed on a Filcher-Brannan Adams Acorn Press, Ca. 1843, and vary from a diagram of the press to an alphabet, to a quote from Douglas C. McMurtrie, to a printed tuit by Professor Pratt. Perhaps a unique specimen, and certainly remarkable as a completely handmade object. 26x18cm, [15]ff. printed recto only. Illustrations. Floral corded fabric over boards with purple illustrated endpapers. Some rubbing to cloth at extremities, nearly fine. …

Printed in black and sepia on both sides of a leaf of watermarked wove paper, 45 x 30 cm. On lightly-aged paper with one vertical and two horizontal fold lines. The seven sample pages feature a total of six illustrations, in a variety of styles, two by Herb Roth. The arrangement is as follows. Recto: Title ('Specimen Pages from Books made at the Walpole Printing Office in New Rochelle, N.Y. 1929-1932') with vignette of Walpole. Specimen One, titled 'Piratical Barbarity, &c.', with illustration of pirate ship by Roth. Specimen Two, title-page of T. S. Eliot's 'John Dryden. The Poet. The Dramatist. The Critic.' (New York: Terence & Elsa Holliday, 1932). Specimen Three, sepia frontispiece portrait of the subject of Eliot's 'John Dryden'. Verso: Specimen Four, title-page of 'Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography (Peter Pauper Press, Larchmont, 1930) with vignette caricature of Twain by Roth. Specimen Five, the opening section of Marvell's 'To his Coy Mistress', with vignette. Specimen Six, title-page to 'The Selfish Giant. A Fairy Tale. By Oscar Wilde', with vignette of giant. Specimen Seven, containing three stanzas of Lewis Carroll's 'Hunting of the Snark'. No reference to this title found on viaLibri. …