Alembic Press

A Fine Press creating and printing limited edition books by traditional letterpress. Page first written in January 1997 by David Bolton and last updated 3 February 2020. Handscapes won the first prize, of $10,000, in the City of Busselton Art Award 2016. The book is a joint work printed in Cowaramup, Western Australia by Claire (letterpress and fre... e printing), and Molly Coy, (illustrations and binding). An Accent Specimen has slowed as a new collection of accent matrices had to be catalogued, before production could start. Having identified the matrices, an example of each accent in each face and size is slowly being cast. In addition, some unit widths need to be checked with records at the Type Archive. The Specimen will include all the non-Latin characters, whether accented or not, for which the Press holds matrices. A subset of the Specimen showing just the Cyrillic letters and accents is now available. A Figure Specimen is now available. It shows some 8300 figures (numerals and fractions) that the Press has matrices for. Signs and Symbols was finally completed on 9th November 2009 after some five years work, and issued as A Sign Specimen complete with two pages of Addenda and Corrigenda. A 4 page letterpress version of the Addenda and Corrigenda replaced the earlier laserprinted one(s) in December, and a supplementary 2 page Addenda and Corrigenda II was laserprinted in January 2010, and updated in July 2010. A 6 page Addenda and Corrigenda II was issued in September 2012, part letterpress and part laser printed. This replaces the earlier issues (but not the December 2009 edition). Addenda II incorporates both some extra signs, and many of the missing unit widths, now added from information held at the Type Archive, London. The Addenda sheets may appear overly extensive, but arose partly because the initial edition was only intended as a draft, and partly because it had to be printed in a hurry, before the Vandercook press was disposed of. A Supplement sheet showing some 285 signs acquired since the Sign ...Read More