#Fine Press books

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

SARAH VAN NIEKERK

English artist Sarah Van Niekerk (1934 - 2018) was an award-winning Illustrator and wood engraver, a member of the Society of Wood Engravers (SWE), and the Society's chair, 1995-1998. This print, Rams, was printed from the original block in 2020 Vision: Nineteen Wood Engravers, One Collector, and the Artists Who Inspired Them, printed in 2020 by Patrick Randle’s Nomad Letterpress at the Whittington Press in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in an edition of 340 copies for the 100th anniversary of the Society of Wood Engravers. Unfortunately, Van Niekerk died during the planning of the book and her daughter Jess wrote the text for mother's entry and helped select the block to be printed.

Sarah Van Niekerk attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts (1951-1954) where she studied with wood engraver and sculptor Gertrude Hermes who greatly influenced her work. She continued her education at the Slade School (1955-1956) and much later taught wood engraving at the Royal Academy of Art (1976-1986) and the City and Guilds Art School (1979-1998), and for many years was a tutor at West Dean College. Besides being a member of SWE, she was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and a Royal West of England Academician.

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#Wood Engraving Wednesday #Women's History Month #wood engravings #wood engravers #women wood engravers #Sarah Van Niekerk #Rams #sheep #lambs #2020 Vision #Nomad Press #Whittington Press #Patrick Randle #Society of Wood Engravers #letterpress printing #fine press books #artistic influences #Gertrude Hermes

[catominor]

A 1964 illustrated Satyricon, translated by William Burnaby and illustrated by Antonio Sotomayor

#fun fact ! i collect fine press books #i only have a couple classics ones but am excited to go on the hunt for more tbh #this one i got at brattle books in boston i believe #sadly this translation is. not my thing but i adore the illustrations

[conservethis]

I pulled this book for a project at work and never have I jumped on the Abebooks website so fast to see if there was another copy of a book for sale as I did after I flipped through it.

I have been keeping aquariums for 30 years now, and this will be a great addition to my personal collection of Books About Fish!

“Shallows of the Sea” was printed by Lamar College’s “Blotter Press” in 1966. It contains many lovely silkscreened images of freshwater fish (including many species familiar to the aquarium trade).

I can’t wait for my copy to arrive in the mail!

#original content #fish #aquariums #screen printing #fine printing #small press #books #art #aquarium #book collecting

[hclib]

Remembering Jody Williams, 1956-2023

In August, I met with Minneapolis book artist Jody Williams. We gossiped about other artists, talked about tiny things, and she shared stories about her life-long love of books and her chaotic 1960s childhood, growing up near Chicago with five siblings. But the real reason she was visiting was to sell old work from her archive. I've been buying Jody's work for the Hennepin County Library's Book Arts and Fine Press Collection for over a decade, but didn't have any of her early work and wanted to better document her legacy as a book artist. She brought with her nearly all of her books--work spanning over thirty years as a book artist--and it all fit in just one box. Jody's work is tiny.

She had the first editioned artists' book she ever made, her first book housed in a box, her first book under the name Flying Paper Press, her first book printed in her own studio, a book about phobias, an alphabet bestiary jack-in-the-box, books which melded her training in printmaking and metalworking, and her semi-annual periodical devoted to tiny things, among others. What they all had in common was their diminutive size, Jody-designed font, and impeccable precision. We now have 20 of Jody Williams' books in our collection.

Jody died on October 17, 2023, after a long battle with cancer. She will be missed and will be remembered fondly for her contributions to book and printing arts in the Twin Cities.

Jody's books will be on display at Minneapolis Central Library starting in mid-December 2023 through February 2024.

#Jody Williams #Book Arts and Fine Press Collection #artists' books #book arts #book artists #printmaking

[cringecountry]

Remus and the lupin

#remus lupin #wolfstar #marauders #my art #this hair makes no sense which is fine its just a sketch but if I ever colour i should fix it. also ill shave his eyebrows bc what are thos #anyway... hallo tumblr. first post in this account #the reason this is tagged wolfstar is i think sirius would steal his books to read them and he would underline sentences and write #on the margins and he would press wildflowers for him to find #and i think years into sirius imprisonment remus would keep finding notes and flowers #and remus would feel awful bc how could someone with that kind of sensibility for poetry and love and literature betray them all and kill #a bunch of ppl. etc etc. but yeah yeah. anyway but this is a happy one bye

[mrkoppa]

Understanding This Book, 2023

#utb #franklin gothic #typogrpaphy #organizing #organizing a mess #books #fine press #book arts #artists book #code #artists books #art #letterpress #kunst #jazz poetry #concrete #concrete poetry #typographic jazz

[summonthebats]

Why do team black members, and maybe team green as well but i haven't found those yet, make so many posts with book snips, and then say stuff in the same post that makes it very clear that they haven't read the book?

Possibly any of GRRM's books tbh

I mean I thought book'Dany's "conquest and rule are very diffrent" plot in Slavers Bay was well done. And the show did it dirty.

And now there are Book snips trying to make Show points, and just

These are seperate works of fiction. The show stated with Rheanyra aged up about 6 years and completely mangled book!Rheanyra's actually quite interesting implied relationship with House Velaryon!

They related not the same.

#just been told that 32 year old Alicent bullied Rheanyra at 10 #and that kings can't get away with kinslaying #only book Alicent is 10 years older than her stepdaughter #and Aegon 2's savage murder of his sister gets little press #you haven't read the book that fine #its written like a textbook half the time! #but with multiple unreliable narrators instead of one! #so use show details to support show point #NOT THIS BULL #hotd #anti team black #and anyone else whose doing this ye gods

[apatheticlexicographer]

most of the flowers i pressed last ~october/november are done :DDD

these were all spread across 8 books. there was a 9th book with a few small flowers, but i already swapped those out for new ones and i can't remember what was in there lol

#the calla lily got pretty fucked up even tho i crushed the shit out of it #(doesn't show up too much in the photo but the stamen went kinda moldy + silverfish have eaten right thru the middle of it lmao) #i underestimated how much newspaper it would need too so the book pages got damaged ;-; #but i'm not too bothered. mostly i just wanted to see if it could even work #and the petal + stem pressed just fine #maybe next year i'll try it again but remove the stamen or slice it in half lol #lexi stfu challenge

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Coming Out Swinging; or, It's So Early In The Year To Be Over-Buying Books But Here We Are.

Okay, so: I know I set one of my bookish goals this year to be "buy fewer books," BUT! First off, preorders don't count, and second off, the Two Lines Press haul was logged under last year's book purchases, and it's not my fault they arrived a week later. RAVEN TOWER I have no excuses for.

I have really enjoyed everything of Two Lines Press that I've read so far--their Calico series are perfect bite-sized anthologies in translation, vaguely themed (and THIS IS US LOSING COUNT has the English and Russian version of the poems presented side by side! I can read both of those!!). I'm ride or die for Wayward Children installments (this is why I love January), and a friend spoke very highly of RAVEN TOWER so I picked up a used copy from HPB. I'm very pleased with my piecemeal haul to start the year! I swear I'll buy fewer books once I work through all my coupons/gift cards! I love books!!

#book haul #book photography #my photography #two lines press #this is us losing count #elektrik #elemental #calico series #at the edge of the woods #masatsugu ono #mislaid in parts half-known #seanan mcguire #the raven tower #ann leckie #also listen i have come to terms with the fact that book buying is the coping mechanism i am leaning on #because writing as my coping mechanism is inaccessible for great chunks of my time here and i hate that with every fiber of my being #but you can only have so many conversations with people who claim to love you about what you need to not lose your mind before-- #--you give the fuck up because nothing changes and you just simmer in resentment about it for years #it's fine. i'm fine. #(i need a fucking house lmao)

[garadinervi]

Robert Motherwell, HISTORY, [one of 22 etchings created to illustrate the James Joyce book 'Ulysses', Arion Press, San Francisco, CA, 1988; from the album of the same title], 1988, Edition of 40 plus 15 APs [Christopher-Clark Fine Art, San Francisco, CA. © Dedalus Foundation/VAGA, NY]

#art #drawing #etching #portfolio #book #bloomsday #ulysses #robert motherwell #james joyce #arion press #christopher clark fine art #dedalus foundation #1980s

[aidansplaguewind]

#aidan gillen #he looks daddylicious #that grey chest hair omg #i wanna bury my nose in it #there is nothing more comforting #damn son you fine #the things i wanna do to you #for you #project blue book press #interview #my gifs #mine #comic con 2019 #comic con #sdcc

[uwmspeccoll]

Classic Lessons in Love

Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC-AD 17/18), more familiarly known as Ovid, was a Roman poet most famously known for his mythological history of the world, Metamorphoses. His satirical and sometimes dark take on all the intricacies of love and relationships is exhibited in Ars Amatoria. The Art of Love is a 1971 English translation edition of Ars Amatoria, translated by English classicist and scholar of Latin poetry B. P. Moore (1877-1955), with pen and ink illustrations by British artist Eric Fraser (1902-1983). The edition was designed by Robert L. Dothard and printed at the Press of A. Colish in Mount Vernon, NY, for members of the Limited Editions Club in an edition of 1500 copies on specially-made, oyster-white, mould-made paper crafted at the Arches mill in France.

In the first book of Ars Amatoria, Ovid guides men on how to successfully find a woman. In the second book, we see Ovid's advice shift towards maintaining a healthy relationship with one's partner. The third and final book, produced two years after the first two, focuses on advice for women on how to win and keep the love of a man. The work, however, was considered salacious and was banned by Emperor Augustus, with the charge of it being immoral, and is one of the few examples of the Roman government censoring a Roman author’s writing.

The topic's typical scenarios are presented engagingly, incorporating elements from Greek mythology, daily life in ancient Rome, and universal human experiences. Ovid offers hilarious advice, such as how women can keep their lovers from becoming neglectful by making them artificially jealous. He also advises men to never argue with their mistresses, as it could lead to expensive gift-giving in order to reconcile. When it comes to the sexes, it seems some things never change!

-Melissa, Special Collections Classics Intern

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#classics #ovid #love #lovers #Ars Amatoria #art of love #poetry #classical literature #roman poetry #greek mythology #ancient rome #relationships #advice #poet #Limited Editions Club #Press of A. Colish #Eric Fraser #B. P. Moore #Robert L. Dothard #fine press books

[chloelouygo]

Me: I wonder why I have a headache and feel dizzy, this isn't fair, I had water earlier and I've eaten and everything! :(

Also me, clutching my fifth cup of coffee: oh-

#i kept crouching down to out books away and seeing stars #whoops #caffine does fuck all to me so i am shocked by this #i guess 8 hours work an hours driving and 2 hours corporate training have killed me into caffine submission lmao #im fine i am fine i just WHEW #this is not like me #dont do drugs kids (drink 2 french presses worth of coffee)

[rustbeltjessie]

Had my first in-person poetry reading in 2.5 years at the Pollard Gallery in Kenosha on Saturday, and had to take the requisite photo of the merch table. I always wanted to be the merch person for a punk band, instead I’ve just always been my own merch person. (May 7, 2022)

#jessie lynn mcmains #my photos #merch #books #zines #cassette #pins #indie author #hello america stereo cassette #fine print #bone and ink press

[hclib]

PROGRAM

Book Artist Talk with Linda Gammell

Thursday, September 15, 5:30-7 p.m., Nokomis Library

St. Paul photographer Linda Gammell will discuss her artistic and research process for developing her latest artist’s book, “Mississippi, Book of Hours.” The limited-edition book documents her 10-year project of photographing bird’s-eye view images from city bridges, together with a personal essay about growing up along the river’s banks, where the Mississippi became a character in her family’s lives. Her artwork focuses on connections to place, memory, and natural history. Linda is the recipient of a 2020 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant.

Hosted by Hennepin County Library Special Collections, featuring an overview and highlights from the Book Arts and Fine Press Collection at Minneapolis Central Library.

#book artists #artists' books #Book Arts and Fine Press Collection #photographers #Mississippi River #artist talks

[vanweezer]

#its okay its fine its okay its fine its only five pages each chapter i can do it i can do it im so brave and im so strong #the single reference to 'new years' (iykyk) in the lust chapter is whats keeping me pushing #''rpf is fine'' - corey taylor #is it even rpf then. if thats just what theyre doing. being retold. by the person involved. #what the fuck is anythingggg WHAT IS ANYTHINGGGGG I WANNA PASS THE FUCK OUT #kingsley does: cmft books #<- because i KNOW itll only be a matter of time until i latch onto the other ones. im already toeing the line now #i know i told you guys to put me down in the event this happened so im ready #hopefully he becomes more. bearable <3 down the line #i am NOT reading america 51 you cannot pay me ten thousand million dollars to do that #even though he was soaurrrr fine during the promo/press tour for it. who said that