BONE-BLACK & VERMILION: an Elegy to the Printing Press

$75.00

BONE-BLACK & VERMILION : an Elegy to the Printing Press

by Peter Rutledge Koch

Composed on an occasion calling for a defense of letterpress printing in August of 2009, while I was a guest at the American Academy in Rome.

printed in an edition of 107 copies at the
The Real Lead Saloon
Berkeley, California 2022

Printed on vintage Robert Serpa handmade paper.

Typeface: Berthold Wolpe’s Pegasus and Albertus typefaces.

Christopher Stinehour designed the ornament and the printing was accomplished in December 2021.

7.25 x 11.75 inches

8 pp

Hand-sewn into Fabriano wrappers.

Seventy-five copies for sale.

Peter Koch
Monique Comacchio
Susan Filter
Mark Livingston
Kate van Orden
Christopher Stinehour

No collection information available for this publication.

Dimensions 7.25 × 11.75 × .25 in