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Rob Roy Kelly’s American Wood Type 1828-1900: RE-ISSUED!
Delicious. The only appropriate word that comes to mind as I peruse the letter-laden pages of The Latest & Greatest News in Wood Type Land:
The one and only comprehensive compendium of collected, observed, used, and researched American-made wood type (previously a rare collector’s item via ebay or esoteric used booksellers) has been re-issued in affordable paperback by independent publisher Liber Apertus Press in Saratoga, CA.
While I certainly lament balking at the price tag on an original copy a few years back during thesis research, I jumped at the chance to have/hold/cherish a glossy new copy…
The Unbearable Love of Lettering
Read more about Rob Roy Kelly, the history of wood type in printmaking and its production in the US, and the process of collecting the 600+ specimens found in the volume…
from Nick Sherman at WOODTYPER.ORG
from the folks at Liber Apertus Press
Written by robin on 06/28/2010 in Blog | Design Resources | Folk Art | Graphic Design | News | Printmaking
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