WOOD TYPE SORTS by Simon Goode
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WOOD TYPE SORTS by Simon Goode
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Title Wood Type Sorts
Author(s)/Editor(s) Simon Goode
Publisher Self-published
Pages
Dimensions 105 x 150 mm
Format Softcover, hand-bound
Year 2019

This book contains a selection of wood type sorts from the collection at London Centre for Book Arts. They have all one thing in common; a second face cut into the reverse, or the foot, of the type. Working with limited moveable type, printers would need to improvise on the fly and hand-cut a missing character to complete a job. A damaged H becomes an S, a rarely-used 3, an A – some hastily done, and some almost indistinguishable from the real thing. Printed letterpress at LCBA in 2019 in an edition of 75 copies.

Found in: A6 BOOKS  LCBA  Self-published