A Short Passage from that Revered Book Printer on Typesetting with Machines versus the Merits of Handwork

An excerpt from DANIEL BERKELEY UPDIKE

2022 / Limited Edition Book / VH0020
[Gaspereau Press Imprint]

¶ From the Merrymount Press in Boston, Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860–1941) and his partner John Bianchi turned out well-designed books & ephemera. This short excerpt, reprinted from Updike’s 1924 essay ‘The Seven Champions of Typography’ is an important meditation on the right use of machines written at a moment in history when the mechanization of typesetting was gaining steam. Includes a an afterword by Andrew Steeves and an addendum gleaned from the writing of Bruce Rogers, Updike’s contemporary, sometime rival and frienemy.

Specifications: Typeset in Linotype Palatino and Caravan ornaments with foundry Palatino, Monotype Optima and plain gothic wood type. Printed in black, green, grey and orange on Stella Text machine made cotton paper. Folded and trimmed to 5 × 7.75 inches, making 20 pages. Handsewn and casebound in brown cloth spine with printed paper over boards. Includes a tipped-in pamphlet typeset in Monotype Centaur and Arrighi and printed in black, red and light green on Zerkall mouldmade paper. The pamphlet is one sheet printed ‘two-up’ and folded to 10.3 × 17 cm making 4 pages.

20 pages + tipped-in 4-page pamphlet
Limited edition of 120 numbered copies­
CND $100 + shipping & taxes

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