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Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop
In this age of digital media, the handcrafted ethic and aesthetic of a Hatch Show Print poster is beyond compare Country musicians and magicians, professional wrestlers and rock stars, all have turned to Nashville's historic Hatch Show Print to create showstopping posters. Established in 1879, Hatch preserves the art of traditional printing that has earned a loyal following to this day (including the likes of Beck, Emmylou Harris, and the Beastie Boys). Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop is the first fully illustrated tour of this iconic print shop and also chronicles the long life and large cast of employees, entertainers, and American legends whose histories are intertwined with it. Complete with 190 illustrations--as well as a special book jacket that unfolds to reveal an original Hatch poster on the reverse-- Hatch Show Print is a dazzling document of this legendary institution..
Price: $32.88
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General Printing: An Illustrated Guide to Letterpress Printing
General Printing is a comprehensive guide to letterpress printing. With 300 photos and 140 illustrations, it offers detailed step-by-step visual instruction Key topics include: handsetting type, taking proofs, mitering rules, locking up a form, adding packing and make-ready, feeding the press, advanced composition, safety considerations for heavy machinery, tricks of the trade, and layout and design. This edition was originally published in 1963, and has been out of print for many years. With the recent revival of interest in letterpress printing, this book’s popularity and scarcity has made it one of the top ten most sought out-of-print books of any kind for several years. It has now been reissued in an exact facsimile of the 1963 edition, with a new foreword by David S. Rose, a noted authority on letterpress and the history of printing. It also includes a new addendum page summarizing some of the most important current-day resources for letterpress printers..
Price: $20.00
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Printing Digital Type On The Hand-operated Flatbed Cylinder Press
This monograph provides a wealth of detailed information on printing digital type with proof presses such as the Vandercook, Challenge, and Asbern. Subjects covered include digital type, computer practices, configuring digital type for letterpress (includes a simple font modification sequence), magnetic bases and how to make them, photopolymer plates and equipment, the photopolymer platemaking process, plate registration, plate travel, impression, cylinder packing and makeready, rollers and inking, presswork, press practices, and a word or two about ink and paper. Included is a source listing of manufacturers and distributors of equipment, materials, and supplies..
Price: $24.95
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The Ideal Book
The Ideal Book collects three essays by William Morris on the art of the book, including his considered opinions on layout, typography, ornamentation, the history of printing, and, more specifically, fifteenth-century woodcut books. His life and career are explored in the introduction by Richard Mathews, an authority on Victorian British literature with special interests in William Morris and printing history..
Price: $14.00
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Letterpress: New Applications for Traditional Skills
Contemporary graphic designers, particularly those who have grown up with the computer, are re-discovering the creative potential of letterpress as a medium. Letterpress has unique visual and tactile impact, thanks to its physical presence on the page, and offers a powerful means of expressing ideas through a more thoughtful and intelligent use of type. Despite the dominance of computer typesetting and printing in trade publishing, new, private letterpress publishers are on the increase. This timely book celebrates the diversity of the original work being produced by graphic designers and typographers using letterpress around the world. The book examines US and European private presses, top international graphic designers working with letterpress, the use of letterpress as a commercial medium in developing countries, and new developments in letterpress technology. It is designed to support the trend for non-computer design techniques now enjoying a period of new growth and reinvention. .
Price: $75.82
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