Four Private Presses, A Memoir
by Risk, R. T
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine copy
- ISBN 10
- 0930126432
- ISBN 13
- 9780930126438
- Seller
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Francestown, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Francestown: Typographeum, 1993. Limited private press edition. First edition.. Hardcover. Fine copy. 8vo. Black cloth. Printed label on back-strip (spare label tipped in). Pp. 60. Frontispiece, 4 mounted plates. 125 copies hand-set, printed letterpress and bound by R. T. Risk. Issued without a dust-jacket. This memoir recounts visits made by the author to four interesting private presses in 1973. The Castlelaw Press was in the Scottish village of West Linton and was run by Alex Frizzell, a much loved bookseller. The Mélissa Press, at Draguignan in the south of France, was operated by Count Potocki of Montalk, a distinctive if controversial individual. The Officina Bodoni, at Verona, Italy, was the private press of Giovanni Mardersteig. And the Cuala Press at Dublin, Ireland, was still being run by members of the Yeats family. The memoir also touches on why the author sought out these printers and how they influenced him.
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- Bookseller
- The Typographeum Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0000389
- Title
- Four Private Presses, A Memoir
- Author
- Risk, R. T
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited private press edition. First edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0930126432
- ISBN 13
- 9780930126438
- Publisher
- Typographeum
- Place of Publication
- Francestown
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Typographeum. R. T. Risk. Private Press. Letterpress printing.
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- Typographeum;
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The Typographeum Bookshop
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Francestown, New Hampshire
About The Typographeum Bookshop
The Typographeum Bookshop was founded in 1976 and offers a small stock of books with a special emphasis on British and European literature, as well as fine foreign films. In addition, I was a private press printer who published a variety of books using the technique of letterpress developed by Gutenberg in the 15th Century. Please visit my website, https://typographeum.us, for much more information, as well as pictures of my shop, both inside and out.
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