Research Catalog

Title

Elements in correlation : printing with the handpress at Heavenly Monkey / by Rollin Millroy.

Author

Milroy, Rollin

Publication

• [Vancouver, B.C.] : Heavenly Monkey, [2009].
• ©2009

Supplementary Content

Publisher's description

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Taylor, Andrea, 1969-
• Lissel, Reg
• Cohen, Claudia, 1953-
• Heavenly Monkey (Firm), publisher.

Description

• 39 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 20 pages of samples in various pagings, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates, 6 unnumbered leaves of samples : illustrations, portrait, samples; 32 cm
• 39 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 16 pages of samples in various pagings, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait, samples ;

Alternative Title

Printing with the handpress at Heavenly Monkey

Subjects

• Paste papers (Binding) > Canada > 21st century
• Handmade papers (Paper)
• Heavenly Monkey (Firm)
• Handmade paper
• Doves Press
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Dante
• Type and type-founding > Specimens
• Hand presses
• Hand-printed books
• Leaf books
• Lissel, Reg > Interviews
• Letterpress printing

Genre/Form

• Leaf books.
• Handmade papers (Paper)
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Dante.
• Paste papers (Binding) – Canada – 21st century.

Note

• "The edition is 40 numbered copies, plus 10 hors de commerce copies (I-X) for the contributors. Copies 1-15 include a copy of Reg [Lissel]'s portrait printed chine collé and initialed by Andrea [Taylor]; a selection of Reg's handmade papers; an original Doves Press leaf bound into Chapter Three; & the signatures of all contributors"--Colophon. Copies 16-40 are signed by Andrea Taylor. On Heavenly Monkey website (viewed July 18, 2016), copies 1-15 are called "deluxe copies"; copies 16-40 are called "press copies."
• "By advance order, patrons were able to have a deluxe copy extra-bound in full leather by Claudia [Cohen], with a traycase. Numbers 1-5 were bound and issued thus ... These copies also include at the front a leaf of Reg Lissel's semi-transparent vellum paper (discussed in Chapter one) printed damp with a brief statement of limitation"--Heavenly Monkey website, viewed July 18, 2016.
• "Chapter one is a revised version of an article that originally appeared in issue 13 of Parenthesis magazine, published by the Fine Press Book Association ... Chapter three was separately published by HM in 2008, with an original Doves Press leaf printed on vellum bound into each copy"--Title page verso.
• "This book has been composed in Giovanni Mardersteig's Dante type & printed damp, exactly as described in Chapter two ... The 40 copies in the edition have been bound by Claudia Cohen and feature a paste paper design she created for this project"--Colophon.
• Mostly printed on dampened sheets of HM Text paper made by Reg Lissel specially for this project; see Prospectus.
• Two leaves of type specimens from metal types held at Heavenly Monkey are bound in at end of volume.
• Contains 4 leaves of type specimens bound in at end.
• Copies 1-15 contain a sample of Doves Press printed ephemera and four pairs of conjugate leaves from books, as printing samples showing the difference between damp and dry printing. Copies 16-40 contain the same printing samples except for the Doves Press sample. The books from which leaves are taken are: Praestantium ac eruditorum virorum epistolae et theologicae. Amsterdami : Apud Henricum Dendrinum, 1660; Poems, by Jean Ingelow. London : Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1867; Hydriotaphia : urne buriall, or A discourse of the sepulchrall urnes lately found in Norfolk, by Sir Thomas Browne. Boston : Printed at the Riverside Press for Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1907; and Gold : its properties, modes of extraction, value, &c. &c., by F.G. Claudet. Vancouver : Robert Reid & Takao Tanabe, 1958. All printing samples are preceded and followed by translucent guard sheets with letterpress identifying the sample; the first guard sheet of the Doves Press sample contains a caricature of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson made up of letters and type ornaments.
• Small paper sample mounted on page 15. In addition, copies 1-15 contain 6 leaves of samples of four handmade papers, bound in following colophon; letterpress on the first identifies the samples: linen, kozo, gampi and vellum.
• Woodcut portrait of Reg Lissel by Andrea Taylor, commissioned for this work, on page 12. In copies 1-15, there is a copy of the portrait printed chine collé on leaf following the colophon, initialed by Taylor in pencil.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-38).

Binding (note)

• Black and dark red leather, with the HM device in gilt and gilt rules and lettering; black paste paper endleaves incorporating the monogram HM. On vellum paper leaf inserted at beginning of volume (not counted in collation): "HM. This copy of Elements in correlation has been specially bound in full leather by Claudia Cohen." Issued in a clamshell box covered and lined with dark red cloth, with paste paper edges and backstrip and black leather spine label.
• Publisher's quarter black leather and black paste paper boards, by Claudia Cohen. The paste paper design incorporates the monogram HM. Copies 6-15 were issued in a matching clamshell box.

Contents

Introduction -- Chapter one: A conversation with Reg Lissel, papermaker -- Chapter two: Why I print how I print -- Chapter three: You cannot choose your progeny.

Call Number

*KP+ (Heavenly) 16-65

OCLC

539476952

Author

Milroy, Rollin, author.

Title

Elements in correlation : printing with the handpress at Heavenly Monkey / by Rollin Millroy.

Publisher

[Vancouver, B.C.] : Heavenly Monkey, [2009].

Copyright Date

©2009

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-38).

Local Note

Rare Books copy is no. 1; signed by Rollin Millroy, Claudia Cohen, Andrea Taylor and Reg Lissel.

Rare Books copy: The portrait printed chine collé is numbered 1/15.

Binding

Copies 1-5: Black and dark red leather, with the HM device in gilt and gilt rules and lettering; black paste paper endleaves incorporating the monogram HM. On vellum paper leaf inserted at beginning of volume (not counted in collation): "HM. This copy of Elements in correlation has been specially bound in full leather by Claudia Cohen." Issued in a clamshell box covered and lined with dark red cloth, with paste paper edges and backstrip and black leather spine label.

Copies 6-40: Publisher's quarter black leather and black paste paper boards, by Claudia Cohen. The paste paper design incorporates the monogram HM. Copies 6-15 were issued in a matching clamshell box.

Local Note

Rare Books copy accompanied by prospectus (1 page; in HM envelope with 3 other Heavenly Monkey prospectuses).

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Publisher's description

Place of Publication

Canada British Columbia Vancouver.

Added Author

Taylor, Andrea, 1969- illustrator.

Lissel, Reg, papermaker.

Cohen, Claudia, 1953- binder.

Heavenly Monkey (Firm), publisher.

Spine Title

Printing with the handpress at Heavenly Monkey

Research Call Number

*KP+ (Heavenly) 16-65