Paper Decorating Orgy 2007

2007-03-25T12:59:00.000-07:00

Don, Will and Reg work their thing!

Typography School

2007-01-24T11:05:00.001-08:00

St. John's Wayzgoose

2006-12-11T06:30:00.000-08:00

St. John's Wayzgoose November 20-26th 2006

A stop at the Basillica to view the books in the library of Bishop John T. Mullock. Mullock was Catholic Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland he was born in 1807 at Limerick in Ireland and died at St. John's, Newfoundland, 26 March, 1869. He was a Franciscan educated at St. Bonaventure's College, Seville, and at St. Isidore's, Rome, where in 1830 he was ordained a priest. After long service in Ireland he was appointed in 1847 coadjutor to Bishop Fleming of St. John's, Newfoundland. Who knows what he did to be sent to such a remote island in the Atlantic? Anyhow In July of 1850, he succeeded Bishop Fleming and put his personal book collection to work in it's very own library. Apparently he brought the books over in several large wooden boxes which the church still has.

We found ourselves surrounded by over six thousand books in six languages; the oldest dates from 1524. Here is a copy of Don Quiote from 1777. It is fully illustrated and translated into english.

Here's Tara Bryant with her assistant Duncan at Walking Bird Press. Tara has two Vandercook SP15 proof presses, a C&P, a Challenge paper cutter, A very large hotstamping press, loads of moveable type (both wood and metal) all housed in her smallish studio. Visit her website here http://www.tarabryan.com/

John at Marnie Parson's press (Running the Goat Press). John was demonstrating his printing skills on the Vandercook SP15 which lives in Marine's basment with her clam shell C&P. Find out more about Marnie's press here
http://www.runningthegoat.com/artofbooks.html

StMichaels printshop in St. John's hosted my wood engraving workshop. It was a great sucess with everyone haveing fun making wood engravings and awesome prints.

Here's Jack at the St. Michael's printshop wood engraving workshop.

Here's the whole St. John's Wayzgoose gang!

No Wayzgoose is complete without a real goose dinner and the St.John's gang didn't let me down!

Hot Library Smut

2006-12-06T16:19:00.000-08:00

for more of this hot stuff click here!

Fighting the Good Fight

2006-12-06T16:13:00.000-08:00

This (and much else!) can be found at at superb blog called BiliOdyssey (I've linked to it under Sites of Interest). Its description reads - "Books~~Illustrations~~Science~~History~~Visual Materia Obscura~~Eclectic Bookart."

Celebrating Our 10th Anniversary!

2006-11-23T08:55:00.000-08:00

Appropriately enough, the Society was founded during a riotous evening meal which has been re-enacted each year (mostly) for the past decade. It is a convivial occasion which gathers together a brother-and-sisterhood devoted to the arcane arts of the book.

The Society has also famously indulged its members' exhibitionist proclivities.

for a nostalgic tour
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The Loving Society of Letterpress Printers