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Barbarian Press

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Crispin Elsted. Utile Dulci: The First Decade at Barbarian Press, 1977-1987. Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 1988.

Limited edition of 150 copies.

Cover of book, UTILE DULCI: THE FIRST DECADE AT BARBARIAN PRESS, 1977-1987   Frontispiece and title page of book, UTILE DULCI: THE FIRST DECADE AT BARBARIAN PRESS, 1977-1987 Frontispiece and title page of book, UTILE DULCI: THE FIRST DECADE AT BARBARIAN PRESS, 1977-1987
 


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Patricia Ainslie & Paul Ritscher. Endgrain: Contemporary Wood Engraving in North America. Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 1995.

Limited edition of copies of which 300 were printed for sale. Of these, 250 were bound in quarter cloth with patterned paper over boards and slipcased. These included patterned endpapers & a signed, tipped-in frontispiece, and were contained in a drop-back box. Fifty copies were bound in full leather

Cover of book, ENDGRAIN: CONTEMPORARY WOOD ENGRAVING IN NORTH AMERICA   Frontispiece and title page of book, ENDGRAIN: CONTEMPORARY WOOD ENGRAVING IN NORTH AMERICA Frontispiece and title page of book, ENDGRAIN: CONTEMPORARY WOOD ENGRAVING IN NORTH AMERICA
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Theresa Kishkan. Inishbream. Wood engravings by Jon Depol. Mission, B.C: Barbarian Press, 1999.

Limited edition of 240 copies. The design edition, with 15 lettered copies, is printed on Twinrocker Simon's green handmade paper, bound by Hélène Francoeur in goat and fish leathers with rope tooling, and housed in a clamshell box of leather and vellum with a portfolio containing proofs of all 21 of the engravings.

Photograph of clamshell case and cover of book, INISHBREAM
Frontispiece and title page of book, INISHBREAM
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John Carroll. Rumour of a Shark. Illustration by Janet Downey. Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 1999.

Limited edition of 125 copies.



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Crispin Elsted. Sorts & Founts: A Showing of Typefaces Held at Barbarian Press. Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 1983.

Designed and handset by Crispin Elsted and printed by Jan Elsted. Limited edition of 30 copies on various kinds of paper and presented in cloth portfolio; 30 copies printed entirely on Basingwerk heavy paper and presented in paper portfolio.

Title page of portfolio, SORTS AND FOUNTS Page showing Cancelleresca Bastarda
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Cancelleresca Bastarda
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Page showing Lutetia Roman typeface Page showing Specimen Sheet of Display Faces
Lutetia Roman typeface
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Specimen Sheet of Display Faces
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