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Leonard Baskin
The Gehenna Press
Northampton, Massachusetts
Cancelleresca Bastarda Displayed in a Series of Maxims and Mottos
Letterpress, edition of 100
1965

Leonard Baskin
The Gehenna Press
Northampton, Massachusetts
Flosculi Sententiarum: Printer’s Flowers Moralised
Harold McGrath, pressman
Letterpress, edition of 250
1967

Sebastian Carter
Rampant Lions Press
Cambridge, England
A Printer’s Dozen: Eleven Spreads from Unrealised Books
Letterpress, edition of 200
1993

Will Carter
Rampant Lions Press
Cambridge, England
The Book of Jonah
Letterpress, edition of 410
1979

Original by Douglas Cleverdon, Clover Hill Editions. Wood Engravings from   the original blocks by David Jones (1926)

Will Carter
The Rampant Lions Press / The Two Horse Press
London, England
Weeds and Wildflowers: Some Irreverent Words
by Armida Maria-Theresa Colt
Wood engravings by George Mackley
Letterpress, edition of 250
1965

Barbara Cash
Ives Street Press
Sweden, Maine
American Samplers
Letterpress
1993
COURTESY CONVIVIO BOOKWORKS

Julie Chen
Flying Fish Press
Berkeley, California
Listening
Letterpress, edition of 75
Box by Sandy Tilcock
1992

Harry Duncan
Abbatoir Editions / The Cummington Press
Omaha, Nebraska
What Are Birds Worth by Roger Weingarten
Letterpress, edition of 230
1975

The Hampshire House Workshops
London, England
The Devil’s Devices by Douglas Pepler
Woodcuts by Eric Gill
Letterpress
1915

Ronald King
Circle Press Publications
London, England
The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Letterpress, silkscreen
Edition of 250
1978

Giovanni Mardersteig
Editiones Officinae Bodoni
Verona, Italy
The Holy Gospels
Woodcuts by Bruno Bamanti after
originals by Bartolomeo di Giovanni
Letterpress, edition of 320
1962

Robin Price
Robin Price, Printer & Publisher
Middletown, Connecticut
Language of Her Body by Amy Bloom
Photography by Derek Dudek, Sumi-e by Keiji Shinohara
Bound by Claudia Cohen & Mark Tomlinson
Letterpress, mixed media
Edition of 60
2003

Silver Buckle Press
University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries
Madison, Wisconsin
Exquisite Horse: A Printers’ Corpse
Letterpress, mixed media
Edition of 100
1997

The Whittington Press
Herefordshire, England
Matrix 1 (REPRINT)
John & Rosalind Randle, editors
Letterpress, edition of 450
1981 (ORIGINAL PUBLICATION)

The Whittington Press
Herefordshire, England
Matrix 12
John & Rosalind Randle, editors
Letterpress, edition of 925
1992

The Whittington Press
Herefordshire, England
Matrix 23
John & Rosalind Randle, editors
Letterpress, edition of 800
2003

The Whittington Press
Herefordshire, England
Matrix 24
John & Rosalind Randle, editors
Letterpress, edition of 800
2004

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