Typographic illustrations. (4to) paper-covered boards backed in blue leather with leather corner tips. No. 40 of 55 copies printed. Not quite a specimen book, not quite a work of original literature (quotes from an eclectic range of writers and artists dot the text, from Aldus Manutius to Dostoyevsky to Herman Zapf), Lead, Tin & Antimony is a typographic adventure from the Greenboathouse Press not to be missed. An introduction by Jason Dewinetz sets the stage for an exploration of the metal types at the press, with the entire book printed directly from the metal types. With prospectus laid in. From the colophon: "Printed from over 20 different types, some cast fresh for this book on an English Monotype Super Caster, some freighted over from Holland, some shipped by post, some hauled in the trunk of my car and some cast by good friends, but all hand set and printed on a Vandercook 219 and 15-21 into Tim Barrett’s wonderful handmade paper during the summer months of 2016. The cranky old fish and the pathetic dead mouse were both engraved by Wesley Bates."
Typographic illustrations. (4to) paper-covered boards backed in blue leather with leather corner tips. No. 40 of 55 copies printed. Not quite a specimen book, not quite a work of original literature (quotes from an eclectic range of writers and artists dot the text, from Aldus Manutius to Dostoyevsky to Herman Zapf), Lead, Tin & Antimony is a typographic adventure from the Greenboathouse Press not to be missed. An introduction by Jason Dewinetz sets the stage for an exploration of the metal types at the press, with the entire book printed directly from the metal types. With prospectus laid in. From the colophon: "Printed from over 20 different types, some cast fresh for this book on an English Monotype Super Caster, some freighted over from Holland, some shipped by post, some hauled in the trunk of my car and some cast by good friends, but all hand set and printed on a Vandercook 219 and 15-21 into Tim Barrett’s wonderful handmade paper during the summer months of 2016. The cranky old fish and the pathetic dead mouse were both engraved by Wesley Bates."
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