“The art of printing, with its necessary tools — paper, ink, and type — has been of supreme importance in the advance of civilization. It has preserved for future generations the culture, literature, and history of former times; it has given opportunities in education for the common...
"Printing is the Inseparable Companion of Achievement" — Roy Trewin Porte Roy Trewin Porte was born on May 8, 1876 in Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada. When he was just five years old he moved to the states with his widowed mother, settling in Casselton, North Dakota. Porte’s mother likely did...
“The most fundamental thing about a book is to find the right paper, because it’s the whole ground of the being of the book, and the quality of the paper is in some ways the most elusive … Critics of the book generally focus on...
"The institutes for new apparatuses" While Trodding Clifton Meador Boone, NC: Clifton Meador, Appalachian State University, 2016 N7433.4 M43 W45 2016 From the artist’s statement: “During a residency in the Truukimuseuum (a printing history museum in Tartu, Estonia…I became interested in the narratives embedded in Soviet-period photo books. Many of...
"[Benjamin Franklin] holds deserved preeminence in the long line of distinguished American printers. The leading features of his useful and brilliant career as a statesman and philosopher are so well known that it is unnecessary to dwell upon them here. But it is worthy of...
TRAVELERS ~~~~~~~~~~ IN CELEBRATION OF PETER AND DONNA THOMAS ~~~~~~~~~~ FORTY YEARS OF BOOKS TO GO Peter and Donna Thomas are book artists from Santa Cruz, CA. They work collaboratively and individually letterpress printing, hand-lettering and illustrating texts, making paper, and hand binding both fine press and artists’ books. Inspired...
Everything corresponds. Sweet is easy: happiness. Tanginess is trickier: people going the wrong way and calling it right; the tendency not to complain while harboring envious and covetous feelings. Sourness is things you like and don’t like — woven together. Smokiness is slow vision, seeing...
“Get rid of that row of bottles & secret dopes at the back of your press. Synchronize your temperature, humidity, ink supply & speed of running, then your prints will be uniform, plentiful, clean & juicy.” — from Collotype Collotype: Being a History-Practium-Bibliography Steven Chayt and Meryl...
“Ne arbitremini quod ego uenetim ut mitterem super terram pacem; non ueni ut mitterem pacem, sed gladium (“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.)” — Matthew 10:34...
“…Letters, the Invention of which was a thing of so great Art and exquisiteness, that…doth from hence inferr the divinity and spirituality of the humane soul, and that it must needs be of a farr more excellent and abstracted Essence that mere Matter or Body…”...