IMPRINTS
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STYGIAN PRESS
Five
Poems
1961
Charon's
Quince
1963
The Making of a Renaissance Book
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IMPRINTS Five
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| In 1961, as a sophomore at Dartmouth College, I took a course from Professor Ray Nash called "Printing and the Graphic Arts". Professor Nash maintained his own graphic arts workshop in the basement of Baker Library where students could try their hand at setting type and printing or creating woodcuts and etchings. He believed that this was essential to the undertanding of history. The emphasis was on process, not art, though many artful and extraordinary works were produced by his students. Needless to say, I was hooked! Within three months of taking my first class I purchased a Chandler & Price jobbing press and began printing my own books and broadsides under the imprint of the Stygian Press. | |