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