[ Large Image ] | 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. Is a special edition of the book: 9999999999917 | 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 |