~ Fine letterpress and intaglio printing ~ Celebrating 30 years in 2022
Gallery ~ Books, broadsides and ephemera
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.
Title page from Heart of Darkness
One of the greatest dangers of work not getting done at DWP – a good hatch on the river!
The Path
Glenn’s remark
Detail of circular quads used in the type form for Along with Youth
Title page to The Chesapeake Voyages of Captain John Smith
The Diana Gabaldon keepsake for the NWS event in Traverse City, July 7, 2014.
Opening spread for There be Monsters
Page spread from The Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, versified by Clara Dotty Bates.
the process
Digging, by Seamus Heaney
Title Page
Initial letter detail
Killing the Bear by Judith Minty
Opening spread for Minisens
Title page from Killing the Bear by Judith Minty
The Trout in Winter
More
. . . and charge the big hook jaws . . .
Program for Oxford
Title page for the book There Be Monsters
Along with Youth
Fancy type mortising (kerning)
Opening spread for the Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, intaglio engravings by Chad Pastotnik.
Center Spread
the linoleum blocks for “The Path” center spread
The Mad Angler’s Manifesto
The Changeling’s Exile
It begins
Pile of Intruders
Presentation binding for John Smith book
Spread from Heart of Darkness
If
Killing the Bear
Killing the Bear by Judith Minty, deluxe edition binding & slipcase
Custom bound journal, commissioned bindery work
Prototype title page
Heart of Darkness
title page
Bower by Terrance Hayes
Sitting on Hadrian’s Wall in northern England
Don Etherington binding of The Intruder
deluxe binding of The Intruder
CD packaging
Detail of title page for the book There Be Monsters
Trout page spread
Page spread from The Frogs Who Wished A King by Aesop, versified by Clara Dotty Bates.
There Be Monsters.
The bindery room
What’s left of the block
Double throw-out page spread from Heart of Darkness
detail of “The Intruder” cover
Secondary edition. The Mad Angler’s Manifesto
Chained books at Chetham’s Library in Manchester, England where I was a speaker at a letterpress conference.
Presentation binding for The Chesapeake Voyages of Captain John Smith
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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