Here are a few highlights from Oak Knoll Fest, the book fair I attended last weekend. There will be more later in the week.
Editions Denise Lapointe showed a prototype of a long skinny book where the pages had “cants” (log cuts) printed letterpress on Japanese paper. There’s a poem written specially for the book that will be added later.
This great photo is in the box housing “James Reid: Selected Wood Engravings,” published by Brier Hill Gallery in Boston. Below is one of Reid’s woodcuts. See many more here
At the table next to mine were students from the Virginia Commonwealth University’s Bowe House Press in Richmond. The book below is called Immortals. It’s 15 6 x 6 x 6″ triangular panels with letterpress printing on both sides, hinged together so the book can be manipulated and read in a variety of ways. I loved the way the book moved. More about it and other student books here.
