Item #53990 THE PENETRATING LIGHT: Fine Printing and the Mind of the Artist. Mark Barbour.
THE PENETRATING LIGHT: Fine Printing and the Mind of the Artist
THE PENETRATING LIGHT: Fine Printing and the Mind of the Artist

THE PENETRATING LIGHT: Fine Printing and the Mind of the Artist.

Shakespeare Press Museum, 1986.

Limited edition. Softcover. Very good plus. Item #53990

Limited edition #112 of 275 copies. Oblong octavo. Approx 5 x 10". Heavy, hand-made paper wrappers, Japanese style sewn binding. Nicely printed collection of quotes from various renown modern printers, including Stanley Morison, Lewis Allen, Jack Stauffacher and others. Mark Barbour is the Founding Curator and Executive Director of the International Print Museum in Carson, CA. Cover shows light wear with some fading to spine edge.

"The Shakespeare Press Museum, a working letterpress museum at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, houses letterpress printing presses and equipment dating from the 1850s to the 1970s."-laurasorvetti.

Price: $45.00