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Printing on the iron handpress / Richard-Gabriel Rummonds ; foreword by Harry Duncan ; illustrations and technical design by George Laws.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Reference 149
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hand presses.
- Printing.
- Hand presses--United States.
- Printing--United States.
- United States.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 470 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 1998.
- Summary:
- Printing on the Iron Handpress is the most comprehensive book ever published on the subject. Precise techniques for printing on the handpress are presented here in lucid, step-by-step procedures that Rummonds perfected over a period of almost twenty-five years at his celebrated Plain Wrapper Press and Ex Ophidia. In tandem with more than 400 detailed diagrams by George Laws, Rummonds describes every procedure a printer needs to know from setting up a handpress studio to preparing books for the binder. Printing historians, as well as amateur and professional printers, will be intrigued by the wealth of additional information on historical printing practices that Rummonds intersperses throughout his text.
- Contents:
- "Checklist of Plain Wrapper Press and Ex Ophidia books": p. 367-376 ; "List of suppliers": pages 377-384.
- Notes:
- "Endpaper design: John DePol; cover design: Richard-Gabriel Rummonds"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-420) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.
- ISBN:
- 1884718396
- 9781884718397
- 188471840X
- 9781884718403
- 0712345604
- 9780712345606
- 0712345612
- 9780712345613
- OCLC:
- 37293269
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