William Rueter

William Rueter studied at the Ontario College of Art and City Literary Institute in London, England, before embarking upon a career as a designer for University of Toronto Press, where he worked from 1969 until 1998. Rueter is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and, in 2013, he received the Alcuin Society’s Robert R. Reid Award and Medal for lifetime achievement in the book arts.



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Final Impression: A Bibliography of the Aliquando Press
William Rueter

2024 / Language Arts/Publishers, Bibliographies / $31.95
9781554472710 / Trade paper / 160 pp


For sixty years, William Rueter immersed himself in an exploration of the book arts and private press publishing, enthusiastically editing, designing, printing and binding an astonishing variety of widely-admired limited edition books and broadsides under the imprint of The Aliquando Press. This bibliography describes 126 books and 120 broadsides produced at the Press between 1962 and 2022, offering insights and anecdotes of interest to collectors, scholars and practitioners alike. Includes colour reproductions depicting over 45 Aliquando Press publications.



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