Hugh Barclay’s One Day Wonder

A week or so after the Press Gang gathering here in Merrickville, Hugh Barclay, the indefatigable proprietor of Thee Hell Box Press in Kingston, emailed me with a proposition: gather a number of letterpress printers and writers in his workshop and produce a book in one day. He said it would be a One Day [...]

What I’ve Been Doing With My Summer

Working mostly. The summer orders shipped last week, and that’s all we have on the books for now, although we have been told to expect more orders soon. Good news!
While I’ve been working hard making money these past four months, I have been thinking about the press, something I have in common with so many [...]

My Summer, Pt.2

During my labours this summer, I also ruminated on the stalled Vampire project. The disintegration of the ‘Bloody O” block allowed for the production of just 20 of 75 copies, all of which have sold. I’m in the peculiar position of having outstanding orders! Finally, a couple of weeks ago, I sent a digital file [...]

Press Gang Invades Merrickville

I’m back in the blog, but starting off by riding on the coat-tails of fellow letterpress printer and book dealer extraordinaire, Rick at the Bytown Bookshop. He’s done a great write-up on the Gathering of the Gangsters here in Merrickville this past July. More on Bytown Books in the future.
http://bytownbookshop.ca/2008/07/16/ottawa-press-gang-meeting-in-merrickville/