During the mid-1990s I began to apprentice at Larkspur Press, a rural Kentucky-based letterpress operation run by Gray Zeitz. All the type at the press was set by hand and (for the most part) printed on a Chandler & Price clamshell press, retrofitted with an electric motor to replace the original foot treadle. Gray was a one man operation and had alread…
30 Years Ago, I Published Wendell Berry—by Hand
A Look Inside the Printing Process of a Small-Press Edition of the Late Poet’s Work
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