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An audio interview with Jan & Crispin Elsted, conducted by Nigel Beale. Simon Brett’s wood engravings for 60 SIGNED SHEETS Please see this page for contact information. |
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The press’s publications range from new translations of poetry and prose, Victorian melodrama, and new poetry to bibliography, illustrated classics, typography, and books on wood engraving. This last has become a particular speciality since the publication in 1995 of Endgrain: Contemporary Wood Engraving in North America, which was greeted with considerable acclaim, and is now widely sought after. This has spawned an ongoing series of books called Endgrain Editions, each showing selected work of a single engraver, printed from the original blocks, with an introduction and a catalogue of major works. The first of these, on Canadian engraver Gerard Brender à Brandis, appeared in 2000; the fourth and fifth volumes, on Simon Brett and Gaylord Schanilec, are planned to appear in 2013-14. |
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Press was established in 1977 in Kent, England, where the Elsteds
worked with Graham Williams at the Florin Press. Having acquired
three flatbed hand presses – an 1850 super royal Hopkinson & Cope
Albion, an 1833 foolscap folio Barrett bench Albion, and an 1854
foolscap folio Sherwin & Cope Imperial – together with
many cases of type, they returned to their native Canada in 1978
and set up shop in Mission, British Columbia, about 50 miles
east of Vancouver in the Fraser Valley, where they remain. To
the English hand presses they have added Vandercook Universal
I and Universal III proofing presses, two Chandler & Price
vertical platen presses, much more type, and a small hand bindery. 