The Bytown Bookshop has now received copies of The Greyweathers Press’ latest letterpress effort Graven Images: A Portfolio of Nineteenth Century Wood Engravings Printed from the Original Blocks. A beautifully crafted book highlighting the workmanship of three 19th century wood engravers, who’s block were unearthed just a few years ago and inked for the first time [...]
The winners of the Alcuin Award for excellence in book design for 2010 have been selected. With well over 200 Canadian entries across 9 provinces and 96 publishers, these winners certainly had a strong field with which to contend. The winners are as follows: CHILDREN First prize: JESSICA SULLIVAN and NAOMI MACDOUGALL, designers of The Little Hummingbird by Michael Nicoll [...]
50% OFF ALL BOOKS INSTORE The Bytown Bookshop will be having a Spring Cleaning Sale! When: 11:00-5:00, Saturday March 26th, 2011 Where: Ottawa Antique Market (1179 Bank St., Ottawa) Discount will be on cash sales only
One of the first and best book sales of the Spring book hunting season is just around the corner! First Avenue Public School Annual Book Sale 73 First Avenue at O’Connor Street http://www.firstavebooksale.com/ Browse through more than 30,000 gently-used books priced to sell. The sale’s extensive adult section is organized conveniently by author in several [...]
Interested in the book arts? Curious as to what book binding courses may be happening in the Ottawa area? Want to know more about how you can get involved in the local books arts community? Look no further than the new CBBAG Ottawa Valley Site on Groupspaces.com for all your News, Events, Member Information and [...]
The time and vision that went into these book based artworks must have been staggering. This is just one of the amazing pieces that “The Book Surgeon” (Brian Dettmer) has done, many of which can be seen on the Modern Met page here. Also check out the galleries on his website here.
50% OFF ALL BOOKS INSTORE The Bytown Bookshop will be having a Spring Cleaning Sale! When: 11:00-5:00, Saturday March 12th, 2011 Where: Ottawa Antique Market (1179 Bank St., Ottawa) Discount will be on cash sales only
A new book written by the Kelmscott scholarly duo, William and Sylvia Peterson, will be available from Oak Knoll Books in April and looks to be a must for any Kelmscott enthusiast. The Kelmscott Chaucer: A Census is an amazingly indepth look at Morris’ masterpiece, tracking down and analysing the history as many of the 425 [...]
The online book auction site Mynotera was recently brought to my attention, and after a couple passes through this week, seems to have a number of interesting books and ephemera for sale on a regular basis. The site is simple, well laid out and seemingly very focused on books, stamps, postcards and other paper ephemera. [...]