Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, this handsome book focuses on a group of Chicago-based small presses-including such operations as Alderbrink Press, Black Cat Press, and the Printing Office of Philip Reed. Their efforts placed Chicago, already established as a major center for commercial printing, on the map of the international fine-press movement between the two world wars.
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Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name, this handsome book focuses on a group of Chicago-based small presses-including such operations as Alderbrink Press, Black Cat Press, and the Printing Office of Philip Reed. Their efforts placed Chicago, already established as a major center for commercial printing, on the map of the international fine-press movement between the two world wars.
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Fine. 1584561017 4to, 40 pp, fine in stiff wraps. Over 40 color illustrations of examples of the private press movement in Chicago. Introduction by the inimitable Paul Gehl, with chapters on eighteen Chicago private presses by Tom Joyce, Susan Rossen, Celia Hilliard, John Chalmers and others. Laid-in are two color postcards used as exhibition announcements.
