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.



Wesley Bates

Wesley Bates was born in the Yukon and raised in Saskatchewan. He now lives in Clifford, Ontario, where he runs West Meadow Press. Known primarily as a wood engraver, Bates’ work has been commissioned by numerous publishers, including Penguin, Random House, McClelland & Stewart, The Porcupine’s Quill and Gaspereau Press.



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Notes on Printing and Publishing Literary Books
Andrew Steeves, Wesley Bates

2022 / Essay / $180.00
Fine / 24 pp


Edition is out of print

The essay Notes on Printing and Publishing Literary Books reflects on the robust tool that books are and the relationship between the literary publisher and the community, asking the deceivingly simple question “What is Literary Publishing for?” Drawing on a quarter century of experience editing, publishing and manufacturing literary books, Andrew Steeves asserts the extraordinary potential that well-made books hold for helping us to understand what is happening to and through our communities, and the pleasure that can be found in creating such books with thoughtfulness and love.

SPECIAL EDITION: Typeset in Monotype Joanna. Printed in black and red on vintage Barcham Green Sandwich wove handmade paper. Includes an original wood engraving by Wesley Bates. Saint Armand Old Masters handmade paper endpapers. Handsewn on tapes. Casebound in dark grey cloth over boards with a printed paper label on the spine and enfolded in a tan Saint Armand Old Masters handmade paper jacket printed from wood and metal type. Issued in a kraft wrapping paper. Edition of 20 copies lettered A through T.


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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 / $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
In Black & White: A Wood Engraver’s Odyssey
Wesley Bates

2020 / Memoir / $39.95 CAN
9781554471911 / Trade paper / 148 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
In Black & White: A Wood Engraver’s Odyssey
Wesley Bates

2008 / Memoir / $59.95 CAN
9781554470587 / Hardcover / 148 pp
Print Shop Chicanery
Andrew Steeves, Wesley Bates

2003 / History / $10.00 CAN
9781894031820 / Pamphlet / 6 pp

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