This letterpress print is 8"x10" in 2 colors (golden brown and teal) on plush pearl white paper from my collection of wood type.

In letterpress printing, the words are set metal type letter by metal type letter, left-to-right, but each letter is inserted upside down. For beginning typesetters, backward-facing letters are confusing, especially the mirrored lower-case letter pairs p and q, and b and d. No one seems to know exactly where the idiom "mind your Ps and Qs" originated, but it's a good bet that it came from advice to typesetters, although there are many competing theories (my favorite: an instruction from a French dancing master to be sure to perform the dance figures pieds and queues accurately.)

This is a limited edition of 40 with each print dated, numbered and signed on the back. Each one is hand pulled, making it an original and slightly different than the others, due to anomalies in inking.

$20.00 (plus $3.00 shipping in the US, $5.00 for non-US addresses. Shipping is combined for multiple purchases.)