Notes on Printing and Publishing Literary Books

An essay by ANDREW STEEVES

2022 / Limited Edition Chapbook / VH0022
[Gaspereau Press Imprint]

OUT OF PRINT

¶ This essay reflects on the robust tool that books are and the relationship between the literary publisher and the community, asking the deceivingly simple question “What is Literary Publishing for?” Drawing on a quarter century of experience editing, publishing and manufacturing literary books, Andrew Steeves asserts the extraordinary potential that well-made books hold for helping us to understand what is happening to and through our communities, and the pleasure that can be found in creating such books with thoughtfulness and love.

Specifications: Typeset in Monotype Joanna. Printed in black and green on Zerkall mouldmade paper. Includes an original wood engraving by Wesley Bates. Three sheets printed ‘four-up’, folded into 8-page signatures gathered and nested to make a chapbook and trimmed to 12.7 × 19.7 cm. Bound with a three-hole stitch into a black endsheet and black machine-made cover paper printed in green from wood type. Enfolded in a tan Saint Armand Old Masters handmade paper jacket printed in green, orange, and transparent brown from wood type. Issued in a paper envelope printed in green, orange and transparent grey from wood type.

24 pages + endsheet
Limited edition of 170 numbered copies­
CND $100 + shipping & taxes

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