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¶ The following books, chapbooks and broadsides are presently available for order from Press of the Varying Hare. Clicking on the ‘inquire’ button associated with each title will open a blank email that is addressed to the press so that you can let me know what book you want to acquire. I’m generally back in touch to confirm the details and finalize the order within a few days.
Please note that some of the letterpress limited-editions that I published under the Gaspereau Press imprint between 2000 and 2025 are now available through Press of the Varying Hare. In most instances, the prices have been increased to reflect scarcity.
Glenn Goluska in Toronto | Snow Fence | Fond | The Dream of the Toad | So Many Boys All Doing Right | The Figure a Poem Makes | Four Trees and a Rhubarb Patch | Still Deep & Sweet | Survey of a Swamp | Notes: Unspecializing Poetry | Wherefore Wilderness Ecology? | Lagomorph | Calmly, Intelligently, Persistently | The Library a Wilderness | Dogberry | A Prospectus for Pied Beauty | Pied Beauty | Man Is Altogether Too Much Insisted On | Biorachan Road | Machines versus Handwork | Harry Ploughman | Notes on Printing and Publishing Literary Books | A Button Intercepts the Light and Casts a Shadow | Makeready: An interview with Gray Zeitz | Blue River | A Great Deal of Trouble About Shoe-strings | Stilt Jack | Where the Pressed Earth Shines Most | Type Bountiful | Handmade | I Hope Yet to Produce Good Work
Type Bountiful
Essay by ANDREW STEEVES with six wood engravings by GEORGE WALKER
Limited edition book
2024 [Gaspereau Press imprint]
Type Bountiful celebrates the present-day abundance of type and digital typographic tools by placing it into historical context, demonstrating how the mechanization of typesetting through the late 19th and early 20th centuries set the stage for the typographic plenitude of the digital era. Drawing upon three decades of experience working with many generations of typographic tools, the author provides a thumbnail history of type’s transition from handcraft to industrial to digital mode, comparing and contrasting various methods of type production and composition. At the heart of this story of technological change resides the enduring influence of human spirit.
Specifications: Typeset in Linotype Palatino. Printed in black, orange and grey on Arches Johannot mouldmade paper. Eight sheets printed ‘four-up’, folded into 8-page signatures and trimmed to 15.5 × 24.5 cm. Handsewn. Doubled endpapers of grey Hahnemühle Bugra mouldmade paper. Includes six wood engravings by George Walker were printed in black on three sheets of Gampi Itaboshi, folded into folios measuring under 15.5 × 24.5 cm, wrapped around three of the signatures and bound into the book. Bound in a grey cloth. Orange paper label on the spine printed in black. Enfolded in a black machine-made paper phase box, hand cut, printed in opaque white from photopolymer. Issued in a kraft paper wrapper printed in orange, opaque white and transparent white from wood type.
64 pages + engravings + doubled endpapers
Limited edition of 70 numbered copies
CND $600 + shipping & taxes