A new 4 part mini-series on the “the act of reading and traces its impact on more than five thousand years of human history” starts tonight on TVO at 10pm. If you can’t catch the episodes on TV, they will be made available on the TVO website after the broadcasts. Looks to be a very [...]
The Christmas Turr Dave Paddon and Duncan Major Original linocut illustrations for the poem are by Duncan Major.  Letterpress printed in an edition of  360.  Papers were handmade in Czechoslovakia; the endpapers are Japanese, and the cover papers are from St.-Armand. $15 + HST  Notes (toward a poem about play) Don  Austin and Tara Bryan [...]
Was introduced to the Printeresting blog by a fellow Ottawa Press Gang member and have enjoyed reading many of the great posts they’ve put up over the past couple years.  They’ve also got a PDF of the Month section and a budding classified area which will hopefully grow into a great place to exchange info and equipment. It was this [...]
I was recently alerted to this great new press from Vancouver and am very impressed by their inaugural title. The Bowler Press launched it’s first book at the Vancouver Wayzgoose (which took place October 24th), a beautifully illustrated edition of The Importance of Being Earnest. The book has already had some great coverage so far with the [...]
Our friend Larry Thompson at the Greyweathers Press did a wonderful interview with Nigel Beale a couple months ago and is now available on Nigel’s site here. I did an interview with Nigel as well about a month ago discussing the history of private presses and those who collect their works. This interview should be [...]
This weekend will host no less than two book sales to keep your shelves stocked heading into the winter months. The first is the 3-day Rockcliffe Book Fair starting this Friday: When: Friday, November 6th from 10am to 9pm Saturday, November 7th from 10am to 6pm Sunday, November 8th from 11am to 5pm Where: Rockcliffe [...]
Today marks the first day of the Bytown Bookshop officially being open for business at the Ottawa Antique Market! The first two weeks we’ve been at the Antique Market while setting up the booth and stocking shelves has been great for sales so far, so here’s hoping that we can keep up the momentum. While we are now installed at [...]