Type Bountiful

Essay by ANDREW STEEVES
with six wood engravings by GEORGE WALKER

2024 / Limited Edition Book / VH0029
[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

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