Calmly, Intelligently, Persistently: Daniel Berkeley Updike on the Press in a Time of Crisis

An essay by DANIEL BERKELEY UPDIKE

2022 / Limited Edition Chapbook / VH0013
[Gaspereau Press Imprint]

¶ Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860–1941), founder of Boston’s famed Merrymount Press, a specialized commercial printshop where common work was done uncommonly well. He wrote this essay at a time when destruction and disorder dominated the news and civilization seemed to be falling apart. Yet Updike’s tone is one of stubborn resolve and optimism. Originally published in 1941 under the title “A Last Word.”

Specifications: Typeset in Monotype Centaur. Printed in black and blue on Saint-Gilles Gaspereau Text handmade paper. Four sheets printed ‘two-up’, folded, gathered into a single signature and trimmed to 16 × 25.5 cm making 16 pages. Bound with a three-hole stitch in an orange paper cover and a blue Zerkall Ingres mouldmade paper wrapper printed in black, white, blue and orange.

16 pages
Limited edition of 1oo numbered copies­
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