 [ Large Image ] | Smoke Proofs: Essays on Literary Publishing, Printing & Typography Andrew Steeves 2014 / Essays / $24.95 9781554471416 / Trade paper / 160 pp Why do we accept shoddy books? This is the question at the heart of Smoke Proofs, a collection of six essays and one interview which takes a frank look at the state of the art of literary publishing, printing and book design in Canada. Ranging from the philosophical and the historical to the nuts and bolts of making books and getting them to market, Smoke Proofs argues for an approach to trade publishing which returns to its printerly roots, one in which the characteristics of various tools and techniques are considered alongside the broader implications of their use in the culture. Whether he’s discussing ebooks, the de-professionalization of typography, the design of poetry books, the fetish for colour pictures on book covers, or our complicated relationship with the notion of ‘beauty’, Steeves continually points the reader back to his or her own responsibility for the preservation and use of that amazing, wily and robust cultural tool—the book. To purchase this title: Add it to your cart | Other Books by this Author |  | Slipsheets: An incidental printing of Gerald Manley Hopkin’s “Pied Beauty” Andrew Steeves, Christopher Patton 2023 / Poetry/Typography / $19.95 CAN 9781554472482 / Trade paper / 48 pp |  | Makeready: An interview with Gray Zeitz of Larkspur Press Andrew Steeves, Michael Hepher 2023 / Essay / $650.00 CAN Fine / 40 pp |  | Notes on Printing and Publishing Literary Books Andrew Steeves, Wesley Bates 2022 / Essay / $180.00 CAN Fine / 24 pp |  | Notes on Printing and Publishing Literary Books Andrew Steeves, Wesley Bates 2022 / Essay / $50.00 CAN Fine / 24 pp |  | Ab Incommodo: An Annotated Checklist of Limited Edition Letterpress-printed Books and Broadsides Andrew Steeves 2022 / Design/Book/Graphic Arts/Typography / $19.95 CAN 9781554472352 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | Dogberry Charges the Watch: Being A Snippet from His Comedy ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ Andrew Steeves 2021 / / $200.00 CAN Fine / 24 pp |  | A Prospectus for a Wood Type Edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘Pied Beauty’ Andrew Steeves 2021 / Essay / $25.00 CAN Fine / 12 pp |  | ‘Wood Type’ Exhibition Poster: plus four prints from Literarum Ex Arboribus Andrew Steeves 2020 / Prints / $100.00 CAN Fine / 1 pp |  | Four Trees and a Rhubarb Patch Andrew Steeves 2018 / Poetry / $30.00 CAN Fine / 16 pp |  | Sixty Over Twenty: Letterpress Books & Broadsides Printed at Gaspereau Press, 1997–2017 Andrew Steeves 2017 / Design/Book/Graphic Arts/Typography / $24.95 CAN 9781554471799 / Trade paper / 80 pp |  | Jack McMaster at Gaspereau Press Andrew Steeves 2016 / Biography / $2.95 CAN 9781554471652 / Pamphlet / 16 pp |  | Glenn Goluska in Toronto Andrew Steeves 2016 / Printing History / Biography / $75.00 CAN 9781554471591 / Fine / 24 pp |  | Rod McDonald @ Gaspereau Press Andrew Steeves 2015 / Art / $2.95 CAN 9781554471478 / Trade paper / 16 pp |  | Print Shop Chicanery Andrew Steeves, Wesley Bates 2003 / History / $10.00 CAN 9781894031820 / Pamphlet / 6 pp |
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