Andrew Steeves

Andrew Steeves is a writer, editor, typographer, letterpress printer and publisher, and the co-founder (with Gary Dunfield) of Gaspereau Press. He has won over 50 citations for excellence in Canadian book design and received the 2021 Lieutenant Governor’s Masterworks Arts Award with Alexander MacLeod for their collaboration on the letterpress book Lagomorph.



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Dogberry Charges the Watch: Being A Snippet from His Comedy ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
Andrew Steeves

2021 / / $200.00
Fine / 24 pp


In the wake of recent high-profile incidents exposing anew the age-old crisis in policing, the bumbling, verbose, self-important character of Constable Dog-berry from Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing takes on importance beyond the ordered world of Elizabethan comedy. Off stage, out here in our communities, the incompetence of Dogberry and his watchmen now does much damage. This excerpt from the play and short commentary remind us of the importance of expecting effort and equity from our civil authorities.

Production details: Includes an original wood engraving by Wesley Bates. Typeset in Linotype Baskerville. Printed in black and two colours on vintage Barcham Green handmade paper, folded to roughly 7 × 11 inches making 24 quarto pages with Saint Armand Old Masters handmade paper endpapers. Limited edition of 50 copies casebound in black cloth over boards with a cloth-covered slipcase. Issued in a kraft wrapping paper decorated with wood type printed in two colours.



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Type Bountiful
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2024 / Essay / $250.00 CAN
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Slipsheets: An incidental printing of Gerald Manley Hopkin’s “Pied Beauty”
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2023 / Poetry, Typography / $19.95 CAN
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2023 / Essay / $650.00 CAN
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Notes on Printing and Publishing Literary Books
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2022 / Essay / $180.00 CAN
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Notes on Printing and Publishing Literary Books
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2022 / Essay / $50.00 CAN
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Ab Incommodo: An Annotated Checklist of Limited Edition Letterpress-printed Books and Broadsides
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2022 / Design, Book, Graphic Arts, Typography / $19.95 CAN
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A Prospectus for a Wood Type Edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘Pied Beauty’
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2021 / Essay / $25.00 CAN
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‘Wood Type’ Exhibition Poster: plus four prints from Literarum Ex Arboribus
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2020 / Prints / $100.00 CAN
Fine / 1 pp
Four Trees and a Rhubarb Patch
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2018 / Poetry / $30.00 CAN
Fine / 16 pp
Sixty Over Twenty: Letterpress Books & Broadsides Printed at Gaspereau Press, 1997–2017
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2017 / Design/Book/Graphic Arts, Typography / $24.95 CAN
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2016 / Biography / $2.95 CAN
9781554471652 / Pamphlet / 16 pp
Glenn Goluska in Toronto
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2016 / Printing History / Biography / $75.00 CAN
9781554471591 / Fine / 24 pp
Rod McDonald @ Gaspereau Press
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2015 / Art / $2.95 CAN
9781554471478 / Trade paper / 16 pp
Smoke Proofs: Essays on Literary Publishing, Printing & Typography
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2014 / Essays / $24.95 CAN
9781554471416 / Trade paper / 160 pp
Print Shop Chicanery
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2003 / History / $10.00 CAN
9781894031820 / Pamphlet / 6 pp

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