Takao Tanabe: Sometime Printer
A tour de force of Letterpress printing
Announcing a new publication from the Alcuin Society, Takao
Tanabe: Sometime Printer, a tour de force of Letterpress
printing, published in 2010 by Robert R. Reid.
The book is filled with his keen artistic and typographic style, with 156 pages of reproductions of book pages and job printing and 19 tip-ins, all in full colour.
The first edition will be printed in very low numbers, with 70 copies being produced.
The previous books in the series were also printed in a very low edition, and both have since sold out. Dorothy Burnett, Bookbinder, was the first in our series on Printing and Book Arts, published in 2007, and devoted to the work of Dorothy Burnett, English Canada's first fine Bookbinder. Duthie's Bookmarks was the second book in the series published in 2008, celebrating fifty years of bookmarks created for Duthie Books by a who’s who of West Coast artists including Jack Shadbolt, Takao Tanabe, Celia King, Carel Moiseiwitsch and 20 others.
The price of Takao Tanabe: Sometime Printer is $185 CDN
PDF sales sheet
The book is filled with his keen artistic and typographic style, with 156 pages of reproductions of book pages and job printing and 19 tip-ins, all in full colour.
The first edition will be printed in very low numbers, with 70 copies being produced.
The previous books in the series were also printed in a very low edition, and both have since sold out. Dorothy Burnett, Bookbinder, was the first in our series on Printing and Book Arts, published in 2007, and devoted to the work of Dorothy Burnett, English Canada's first fine Bookbinder. Duthie's Bookmarks was the second book in the series published in 2008, celebrating fifty years of bookmarks created for Duthie Books by a who’s who of West Coast artists including Jack Shadbolt, Takao Tanabe, Celia King, Carel Moiseiwitsch and 20 others.
The price of Takao Tanabe: Sometime Printer is $185 CDN
PDF sales sheet
To order contact info@alcuinsociety.com or write to:
The Alcuin Society,
PO Box 3216, Vancouver, B.C., V6B 3X8
Blog post: http://blog.alcuinsociety.com/2010/10/new-book-takao-tanabe-sometime-printer.html