Research Catalog

Title

Coincidental pleasures: printing & farming : an essay / by Bob Baris ; illustrated by Carol J. Blinn.

Author

Baris, Bob

Publication

Easthampton, Mass. : Warwick Press, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Blinn, Carol J.
• Berry, Wendell, 1934-
• Warwick Press. prt

Description

[31] p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Printing & farming

Subjects

• Farm life > Ohio
• Press on Scroll Road
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Zapfino
• Private presses > Ohio
• Printers > Ohio
• Baris, Bob
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Jenson Pro (Adobe)

Genre/Form

• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Jenson Pro (Adobe)
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Zapfino.

Note

• "Seventy-five copies ... were designed, illustrated with pencil line drawings, typeset in Adobe Jenson Pro with Hermann Zapf's Zapfino for display, letterpress printed & handbound by Carol [Blinn]. The text paper is Zerkall Book. Fifty copies were bound using Carol's decorative papers with vellum tapes. Bookbinders Mark Tomlinson and Sarah Pringle each helped with sound advice about procuring and working with the sheep vellum (tanned by Jesse Meyer at Pergamena) that covers the twenty-five special copies"--Colophon, signed by Baris and Blinn.
• "This essay first appeared in Matrix, number 24, winter 2004"--Foreword.
• Illustrations printed in black and white halftone, with one or two accent colors applied by hand.
• Includes Wendell Berry's poem "A purification" as epigraph.
• "Publications by the Press on Scroll Road" (the author's private press in Carrollton, Ohio) on page facing colophon.

Binding (note)

• Ordinary copies: Publisher's quarter green cloth and paste paper boards.

Call Number

*KP (Warwick) 09-195

OCLC

191029109

Author

Baris, Bob.

Title

Coincidental pleasures: printing & farming : an essay / by Bob Baris ; illustrated by Carol J. Blinn.

Imprint

Easthampton, Mass. : Warwick Press, 2007.

Binding

Ordinary copies: Publisher's quarter green cloth and paste paper boards.

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Place of Publication

United States Massachusetts Easthampton.

Added Author

Blinn, Carol J. Illustrator

Warwick Press. Printer

Berry, Wendell, 1934- Purification.

Research Call Number

*KP (Warwick) 09-195