A great little website, I Love Typography, that’s was kindly forwarded by a member of the Ottawa Press Gang. Lots of great articles and videos to be had for the typophile in all of us. Here is a great video called The Final Push on Linotype from the site: http://ilovetypography.com/2011/08/23/linotype-the-film-%E2%80%94-final-push/
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We recently received a package in the mail from the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) detailing the campaign and efforts they have undertaken in an attempt to stem the tide of cutbacks, service discontinuation, and acquisition moratoriums that has assailed Library and Archives Canada (LAC) under their new mandate and restructuring policies. Efforts to [...]
Recently at an auction house I go to from time to time, they had a large book sale in conjunction with their regular auction to help divest of an estate collection. Along with some great older Canadian poetry volumes, I lucked into this beautiful Folio limited edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses for a fraction of [...]
Came across this new blog by the Number 52 Letterpress out in Langley, BC. Only a few posts so far, but some great pictures of their shop set up and printed goodies for Christmas (wish I was on their list!). Looks like they also work a lot with wood type which always brings out the [...]
At a recent book sale I was at, I was pleased to stumble across a jacketed first edition of Canadian Mystery writer Howard Engel’s first book, The Suicide Murders. An unfortunate detraction of the book was that a gift inscription on the title page was Sharpied out, something I’ve seen often when a previous owner [...]
EDGE DECORATION WORKSHOP: March 24th, 2012 Artist: Christine McNair workshop fee: CBBAG members: $85 non-members: $100 material fee: TBD A one-day workshop focusing on the range of edge decoration methods both modern and traditional available to the contemporary bookbinder. Techniques covered will include sprinkling, edge colouring, the painted edge, Japanese semi-gilding, mono offset, an image [...]
A friend of mine brought to my attention the Frankenstein Horror Series, published in the early 1970′s by Popular Library, last week and it has been a really interesting little series to read about. This post from the Groovy Age of Horror website is by far the best review of the series and has great [...]
Here is the info for a couple of upcoming book launches from local mystery authors: Peggy Blair’s The Beggar’s Opera Thursday, 16 February, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm The Orange Art Gallery, 233 Armstrong Street, Ottawa, Ontario There will be live Cuban music with the terrific Cuban duet of Caridad Cruz and César Ricardo. Cuban [...]
We recently acquired a copy of the Cheshire Cat Press’ Wouldn’t it be Murder, a wonderful letterpress book illustrated with engravings by George Walker and printed at the Poole Hall Press. The book contains the talk Alice scholar and enthusiast Joseph Brabant presented to the Lewis Carroll Society of North America at its first meeting [...]
While many of the items on the struck a close cord with many of my observations when we had the open store, unfortunately I can’t lay claim to this humorously honest list of 25 Things Learned From Opening a Bookstore. I can however confirm that while I’ve encountered pretty much everything on the list, numbers [...]