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Portraits from the original Toronto production! Photos by Laird Mackintosh.

Paul Stanley

Kim Stengel

Glenda Balkan

Melissa Dye

Brent Weber

Peter Barnes

Catherine Duff

Tania Parrish

Jill Filion

Donna Kelly

Harriet Chung

Philippa Hayball

Anita Bostok

Samantha Adamson

Mimi Pineau

Deanna Pidwerbeski

Lisa Gaasenbeek

Janet Coates

Gary Krawford

Gerald Isaac

Tim Stiff

Terry Hodges

Paul Mulloy

Brian Duyn

Bob Meilleur

David Playfair

Devin Dalton

Kirk Hansen

John Dodington

Kelly Robertson

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

JOHN DE POL -- THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

This week’s selections are prints by the legendary American wood engraver John DePol for Edgar Allan Poe’s story The Pit and the Pendulum designed and printed in 1991 at Bowne & Co., Stationers for the South Street Seaport Museum in Manhattan by Barbara Henry and Lissa Dodington in an edition of 150 copies signed by the artist. The edition was bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery in Minneapolis using wood-engraved endpapers by DePol.

John DePol (1913-2004) had a long and fruitful relationship with the South Street Seaport Museum and the Bowne & Co. re-creation of a 19th-century printing shop. Besides illustrating three publications for them, he taught several classes there over the years, illustrated notecards and broadsides, and he has been the subject of several exhibitions there, including a major retrospective of DePol’s work in 1978.

Our copy of The Pit and the Pendulum is a gift from our friend Jerry Buff with signed presentation inscriptions to Jerry from DePol and Lissa Dodington made during the publication party at the Sough Street Seaport Museum on June 26, 1991.

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Typography Tuesday

On this last #Typography Tuesday of 2017 we present two specimen displays from Matrix 24, Winter 2004:

1.)  “Specimens from the Frederic Nelson Phillips Collection of 19th-Century Display Type in the collection of Browne & Co. Stationers South Street Seaport Museum,” hand-set and letterpress printed for Matrix by Lissa Dodington and  Barbara Henry at Browne & Co., Stationers to accompany Henry’s article “A Typographical Treasure,” inserted between pages 28 and 29. The article discusses the 1985 acquisition of these display types from Tri-Arts Press, for which Frederic Nelson Phillips, Jr. worked. The specimen sheet is also a short history of the collection set in just a few of the hundreds of display typefaces in the collection. 

2.) “Uncommon Types at the Kelly-Winterton Press, New York,” printed at Kelly-Winterton to accompany an article by Jerry Kelly entitled, “Type: that Obscure Object of Desire,” pp. 116-121.

Matrix 24 was printed by John and Rosalind Randle at the Whittington Press in Risbury, Herefordshire, in an edition of 800 copies in numerous typefaces on a variety of mould-made papers. Our copy is one of 720 bound in stiff paper wrappers by The Fine Book Bindery.

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