Private Press
プライベート・プレス / 1891–1930s / Style / Book Arts
A movement answering industrialized printing: type, paper, composition and binding unified under one ideal, remaking the book as a total work of art.
House-designed type / Handmade paper, hand presses / Margins designed by the spread / Illustration united with text
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't consume it as an ornamental style. It is a publishing movement with convictions about production, labor and quality.
- Further study
- Kelmscott Press / Doves Press / Ashendene Press