 [ Large Image ] | A Prospectus for a Wood Type Edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘Pied Beauty’ Andrew Steeves 2021 / Essay / $25.00 Fine / 12 pp This short essay describes the inspiration for making a limited-edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s celebrated poem ‘Pied Beauty’ that is set in 18-line plain gothic wood type (to be released in December 2021). The prospectus includes a traditional ‘pretty little arrangement’ of the poem by way of contrast to the forthcoming book, as well as production notes and specifications. Production details: Typeset in Linotype Sabon, Linotype Walbaum and wood type. The main section is printed in black on Zerkall mouldmade paper, folded and trimmed to 5.25 × 8.5 inches making eight pages. A slightly smaller folio insert is sewn into the centre, printed in black, green, brown and blue on taupe-coloured Saint Armand Old Masters handmade paper. Edition of 130 copies bound in a black paper cover with black printed endpapers and enfolded in a brown Saint Armand Old Masters handmade paper wrapper printed in black. The envelope is printed in black, brown and blue. To purchase this title: Add it to your cart | Other Books by this Author |  | Type Bountiful Andrew Steeves 2024 / Essay / $250.00 CAN Fine / 64 pp |  | 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 |  | ‘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 |  | Smoke Proofs: Essays on Literary Publishing, Printing & Typography Andrew Steeves 2014 / Essays / $24.95 CAN 9781554471416 / Trade paper / 160 pp |  | Print Shop Chicanery Andrew Steeves, Wesley Bates 2003 / History / $10.00 CAN 9781894031820 / Pamphlet / 6 pp |
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