Here are some valuable resources for Letterpress
printing:
Briar Press the best portal for
equipment classifieds, discussion area, downloads –
ESSENTIAL!
NaGraphics great resource for printing
supplies, Fritz Klinke owner, best for Vandercook
supplies
Boxcar Press excellent
site – fully investigate all the
areas
AAPA excellent resource,
especially the Resource Guide
Five Roses important information
resource
Vandercook Press
Vandercook blog
APHA become a
member of the American Printing History Association
Adana and
Kelsey UK supplier
of rollers
Oak Knoll Press
source for
books about books, letterpress book source, etc.
British Printing
Society excellent
site with files for download on subjects we need to know
M & H
Type buy lead
type, and spacing material; in San Francisco, CA, USA
Skyline Type
Foundry another
source of lead type and ornaments, in Illinois, USA
Don Black
Linecasting Service Canadian
source for letterpress supplies
There is a man in Florida who sells printing supplies -
send me an email message and I'll send you his email
address (he does not have a web site).
Some
Books:
Burke,
Clifford. Printing Poetry: A Workbook in Typographic
Reification. San Francisco: Scarab
Press, 1980.
Chappell, Warren, Bringhurst,
Robert. (2nd ed. rev.) A Short History of the Printed Word.
Vancouver, BC: Harley &
Marks, 1999. http://www.hartleyandmarks.com/
Dodd, Robin. From Gutenberg to OpenType. Vancouver, BC:
Hartley & Marks, 2006.
Dowding, Geoffrey. Finer Points
in the spacing & arrangement of Type. Vancouver, BC:
Hartley & Marks, 1995.
Gordon, Bob. Making Digital Type Look Good. NY:
Watson-Guptill Publications, 2001.
Lawson, Alexander. Printing Types: An Introduction. Boston:
Beacon Press, 1971.
Maravelas, Paul. Letterpress Printing: A manual for modern
fine press printers. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press,
2005.
Mitchell, M. and Wightman, S.
Book Typography: A Designer’s Manual. Marlborough,
Wiltshire,
UK:
Libanus Press, 2005. Get from www.oakknoll.com
Morison, Stanley. A Tally of Types. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge U. Press, 1973.
Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel.
Printing on the Iron Handpress. Oak Knoll Press, 1998.
ISBN 1-884718-40-x paperback. Most of the information is
relevant to any type of
letterpress printing.
Printing
Handbooks:
Hoch,
Fred W. Handbook for Pressmen. NY: Fred W. Hoch Assoc.,
1936. Many editions
over
the years.
Lange,
Gerald. Printing Digital Type on the Hand-Operated Flatbed
Cylinder Press – 3rd ed.
Go to: http://BielerPressxi.blogspot.com/
for details. Important for photopolymer
platemaking and printing on the
Vandercook cylinder press.
Mills, George. Platen Press Operation. Pittsburgh, PA:
Carnegie Inst. of Tech, 1959. ESSENTIAL.
Check with NA Graphics for availability.