 [ Large Image ] | Type Bountiful Andrew Steeves 2024 / Essay / $250.00 Fine / 64 pp Type Bountiful celebrates the present-day abundance of type and digital typographic tools by placing it into historical context, demonstrating how the mechanization of typesetting through the late 19th and early 20th centuries set the stage for the typographic plenitude of the digital era. Drawing upon three decades of experience working with many generations of typographic tools, the author provides a thumbnail history of type’s transition from handcraft to industrial to digital mode, comparing and contrasting various methods of type production and composition. At the heart of this story of technological change resides the enduring influence of human spirit. This essay on typographic bounty will be the last limited-edition letterpress book that Andrew Steeves will produce under the Gaspereau Press imprint. This book was composed on a Model 31 Linotype in 12 point Palatino and printed from the metal on a Vandercook cylinder press. The text paper is Arches Johannot, mouldmade in France. The six illustrations were engraved on maple blocks by George Walker and printed on Gampi Itaboshi handmade paper. The press sheets were folded to make 64 pages (plus the six engravings on Gampi Itaboshi and the doubled endpaper sections); the book measures roughly 9.5 × 6 inches. The sheets were folded, handsewn and casebound, grey cloth over boards. The book comes housed in a black cardstock phase box. All tasks, other than the engraving, were carried out by Andrew Steeves. To purchase this title: Add it to your cart | Other Books by this Author |  | 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 |  | A Prospectus for a Wood Type Edition of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘Pied Beauty’ Andrew Steeves 2021 / Essay / $25.00 CAN Fine / 12 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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