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.

Decorative Sunday

Parenthesis is the journal of the Fine Press Book Association. The original prints shown here are from the portfolio of the deluxe edition of Parenthesis 39 in a limited edition of 100. From top to bottom, they are:

Ode to Spring. Printed by Anne Covell in La Mesa, California.

Transmitter. Printed by Dikko Faust at Purgatory Pie Press, Brooklyn, N.Y. from handset metal and wood types.

Archilochus 9-13. Printed by Richard Seibert, Berkeley, California.

Masses of Flower. Pochoir and sewing by Suzanne Glémot at Stoat and Heather Press, Iowa City, Iowa.

Clouds. printed by Ray Nichols and Jill Cypher at Lead Graffiti in Newark, Delaware.

What was I Thinking. Printed by Elsi Vassdal Ellis at her Eve Press in Bellingham, Washington.

Come, tell me how you Live! Printed by Vladimir Zimakov at Wild Pangolin Press in Wayland, Mass.

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