Birds of Manhattan
High Tide Press, New York, New York, 1998
Description
My printshop contains a motorized Brand etching press and a Vandercook 219 proving press. The type is printed letterpress, either from Linotype slugs or hand set. Display type is from a collection of wood and metal faces assembled over the years, including some old fonts from the nineteenth century.
The collagraph (a print pulled from a collage plate of cardboard, paper, sand, fabric, and found objects) is a particularly favored technique of mine and most of my images are created by this method.
I do not bind my books, but use several binders whose work I have come to respect for their craftsmanship and ability. I have clear ideas as to what form these bindings should take to complement my own work. I am also convinced that text and image should reinforce and relate to each other: simple concept, but difficult achievement.
Credits
- Design firm
- High Tide Press
- Art director/designer
- John Ross
- Illustrator
- John Ross
- Typefaces
- Palatino, Wood Type
- Typographer
- Kent LeFebvre/Signs Plus
- Printer
- High Tide Press
- Binding
- Hope Bindery
- Paper
- Arches Cover, Rives BFK, Lenox 100, Stonehenge, Lana Cover, Coventry, French Speckletone
- Author
- Lloyd Jones
- Publisher
- John Ross