I am down to 30 copies (as of May 18) of Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a letterpress-printed book in an edition of 425. The book traces printing with type before Gutenberg through the present day across all technological developments. Typeset in hot metal in North Yorkshire, printed in London, bound in Germany, the hardcover book is covered in green cloth and comes in a slipcase of the same fabric. https://glog.glennf.com/tiny-type-museum-time-capsule-and-more/six-centuries-letterpress Some copies remain with Tiny Type Museum slipcase stamping.
@Sylvhem Thank you so much! It was a wild ride, as I wrote it in late 2019 and then it was printed and bound into the face of the pandemic. I had the most amazing time designing the endpapers, which I drew by hand, adapted in Illustrator, send to the printer, who then made a photopolymer plate for letterpress printing them. The interior is hot-metal type; just the endpapers are digital-to-analog.
@Sylvhem It was a bit of a stretch to make it happen. It's possible to get hot-metal typesetting from a number of people (in the U.S.; fewer elsewhere). But none of them will print a book from it. There are letterpress book printers I could contract who typically work with photopolymer—but I'd done a book like that. Phil at Hand & Eye works with a former employer who bought his Monotype hot-metal gear! So they are maybe unique.
@Sylvhem@shandyist When sold out, I do have some copies with minor irregularities that I felt wrong selling at full price that I will offer at a significant discount. Watch this space! In some cases, one image wasn't printed? In another, the front endpapers are blank (but "debossed,"), etc. Nothing that spoils the book.
The price includes both the letterpress print edition and the ebook (which contains the full bibliography). Shipping within the United States is also included in the price.
(For reasons of cost and complexity, these last copies only ship to U.S. addresses.)
@rogersm If you'd like a copy, I can make it work for you—it’s about plus $25 to get it overseas. But you may have to pay 0% to 35% import duties plus an agent fee, so I have been reluctant to put that all on recipients. (The UK, it ships zero-rated for VAT so there's no cost for import.)
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