Typography Tuesday

This small letterpress broadside, printed in an edition of 100 copies by noted Chicago printer Jen Farrell at her Starshaped Press, is included in the portfolio of the deluxe edition of Parenthesis 39, the journal of the Fine Press Book Association, Fall 2020. The text is an adaptation of typography theorist Beatrice Warde's (1900-1969) famous 1932 statement, "This is a Printing Office." Farrell tweaked Warde's original text with words from Chicagoans Studs Terkel, Gwendolyn Brooks, Harold Washington, Nelson Algren, Barak Obama, Jane Addams, and Carl Sandburg.

Our issues of Parenthesis are another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.