~ Fine letterpress and intaglio printing ~ Celebrating 35 years in 2027
Gallery ~ Books, broadsides and ephemera
Killing the Bear
Killing the Bear by Judith Minty, deluxe edition binding & slipcase
Title page for the book There Be Monsters
Title page from Heart of Darkness
Spread from Heart of Darkness
The bindery room
The Changeling’s Exile
Fancy type mortising (kerning)
title page
Detail of circular quads used in the type form for Along with Youth
Along with Youth
Title page to The Chesapeake Voyages of Captain John Smith
Opening spread for Minisens
deluxe binding of The Intruder
The Diana Gabaldon keepsake for the NWS event in Traverse City, July 7, 2014.
What’s left of the block
Secondary edition. The Mad Angler’s Manifesto
If
Program for Oxford
One of the greatest dangers of work not getting done at DWP – a good hatch on the river!
Detail of title page for the book There Be Monsters
the linoleum blocks for “The Path” center spread
Presentation binding for John Smith book
Glenn’s remark
Chained books at Chetham’s Library in Manchester, England where I was a speaker at a letterpress conference.
Opening spread for the Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, intaglio engravings by Chad Pastotnik.
. . . and charge the big hook jaws . . .
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Opening spread for There be Monsters
Initial letter detail
the process
The Trout in Winter
Page spread from The Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, versified by Clara Dotty Bates.
The Path
Trout page spread
Sitting on Hadrian’s Wall in northern England
It begins
Don Etherington binding of The Intruder
Killing the Bear by Judith Minty
Prototype title page
Bower by Terrance Hayes
Custom bound journal, commissioned bindery work
Don Etherington binding of The Intruder
CD packaging
Digging, by Seamus Heaney
Some books produced at Deep Wood Press. The John Barth book “Browsing” was printed here at DWP for The Literary House Press (Washington College, MD) by James Dissette, my sometimes partner in crime in printing for Chester River Press.
The Mad Angler’s Manifesto
Title Page
Title page from Killing the Bear by Judith Minty
Heart of Darkness
Presentation binding for The Chesapeake Voyages of Captain John Smith
Double throw-out page spread from Heart of Darkness
There Be Monsters.
detail of “The Intruder” cover
Pile of Intruders
Center Spread
Page spread from The Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, versified by Clara Dotty Bates.
Saw on A Craftsman Legacy. High Coolness Factor. A good friend prints some flyers on an old Kluge in his garage. Not the same Huh? Bruce
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Thank you Rebecca. Very kind of you.
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Your work takes my breath away.
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