Types Paper Print
s.l. [Vancouver]: Heavenly Monkey, 2012 [later binding: 2022]. Quarto, 30.7 x 20.6 cm. Sewn on four slips and laced into limp covers of vibrant red paste-paper. Printed title-label to the spine. Unpaginated [ll. 4: blank self-ends; pp. 16; ll. 5: blank self-ends]. The surface of the paste-paper appears slightly rubbed along the joints and corners; this, however, is not owed to any wear but simply to the delicate surface of the paste-paper itself. A fine copy. The present copy of Types Paper Print is one of three ‘excerpt copies’ bound at HM by Rollin Milroy in 2022. It includes various sheets from the edition published in 2012, comprising:
(1) The title-spread, with a wood engraved frontispiece by Shinsuke Minegishi tipped-in (ll. 2, on Arches Wove paper).
(2) The printer’s Foreword on Arches Wove paper (ll. 2).
(3) The last page of the printer’s Foreword, repeated on Guarro laid paper (ll. 1).
(4) Three specimen leaves displaying Optima on the rectos and Perpetua on the versos, each in three different sizes. On Arches Wove, Guarro Laid, and HM Text paper respectively (ll. 3).
In lieu of a colophon page, there is a note in pencil to the otherwise blank recto preceding the title-spread: “One of three excerpt copies bound 2022 | HM”. Like the complete copies published in 2012, this ‘excerpt copy’ allows the reader to explore the way size and paper affect the appearance of printed type. (cf. This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven, 1.28). Item #392
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