Micah Robbins poetry & book arts
Posts Tagged ‘Book Arts’
The John Ushant Homeward Bounder
Over spring break I traveled down to Austin, TX to get away from Dallas for a bit and see some family. I also wanted to drive out to Manor, TX (pop. 1,204) to see a Chandler & Price 8×10 letterpress circa 1907 that’s been for sale on Briar Press since August ‘09. In the advert’s [...]
Invention & Discovery: 15th Century Printed Books
So far this semester I’ve had the good fortune to work with Eric White, curator of the special collections at SMU’s Bridwell Library. Every Tuesday afternoon we meet for a couple hours and look at books ranging from medieval monastic manuscripts to the world’s earliest examples of the printed word. We talk typefaces, ink, paper [...]
EMBANKMENTS: Richard Owens
New from Interbirth Books — Richard Owens: Embankments.
Seventy-five books (twenty-six of which are lettered A through Z) were designed, printed, assembled, and hand bound 100% in-house by Micah Robbins and Clifton Riley at Interbirth Books. The stitch is a buttonhole. The cover is an original screen / litho print.
43 pages — 5 1/16 in x 7 [...]