Pride & Prejudice limited edition, & hand-made ephemera
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I thought some of you might like to hear about an opportunity to pick up some neat stuff related to Pride & Prejudice, while helping to bring into being what promises to be a rather special edition of the book we all adore so much.
Jarrett Morrison loves Pride & Prejudice. He also loves printing. And he has his own old-time printing press. Under his Bowler Press imprint, he is going to print, by hand, a three-volume edition of Pride & Prejudice, limited to just 138 copies. In league with him on this is Alanna Simenson, who will bind the edition by hand in two different states, a regular and a deluxe binding. To help with the costs of obtaining all the materials necessary to make the books (ensuring uniformity), he has started a crowdfunding campaign. He’s already raised nearly half the money he needs, but could use more help.
He’s offering various “perks” for different levels of contribution, all of them related to Pride & Prejudice and Jane Austen, which he will be making and printing. Ten dollars lets you score a Pride and Prejudice, letterpress bookmark, which will have a small illustration on it. Fifteen dollars garners a letterpress invitation to the Netherfield Ball. Three bookplates, illustrated with an engraving of Austen, can be had for twenty dollars. A detailed prospectus for the books, which will include an illustration and sample text from the books, as well as swatches of the materials used to make them, can be claimed for contributing twenty-five dollars. A five-page, letterpress printed edition of Mr. Darcy’s letter can be had for forty-five dollars. And fifty dollars allows you to claim a broadside of the opening page of the novel, with an embellished design of its famous first sentence, suitable for framing. Other perks may also be claimed for larger contributions, including a discount on a collection of some of the ephemera or on the books themselves, should anyone be able to delude themselves that they can afford such things and, as some of us have, that you can’t live without them.
Mr. Morrison’s work as a pressman is impeccable and his engravings are exquisite. He’s done a delightful edition of Oscar Wilde’s the Importance of Being Earnest and a folio of two letters from Austen books. Ms. Simenson is no novice to her work either, but has honed her exceptional skill as a book binder over the past dozen years or so. The artistry of her work is readily apparent in the edition of Shakespeare’s Pericles she bound for the Barbarian Press, if not in her sketches of the bindings she and Mr. Morrison envision for regular and deluxe states of Pride and Prejudice.
Anyone who would like a letterpress Austen bookmark or an invitation to the Netherfield Ball, or who might need a perfect gift of ephemera for someone who loves Austen's books, or who just enjoys handling and reading letterpress books and wants to ensure that well-made books will continue to be made, might like to take a look and consider joining the crowd contributing to Mr. Morrison’s campaign.
Jarrett Morrison loves Pride & Prejudice. He also loves printing. And he has his own old-time printing press. Under his Bowler Press imprint, he is going to print, by hand, a three-volume edition of Pride & Prejudice, limited to just 138 copies. In league with him on this is Alanna Simenson, who will bind the edition by hand in two different states, a regular and a deluxe binding. To help with the costs of obtaining all the materials necessary to make the books (ensuring uniformity), he has started a crowdfunding campaign. He’s already raised nearly half the money he needs, but could use more help.
He’s offering various “perks” for different levels of contribution, all of them related to Pride & Prejudice and Jane Austen, which he will be making and printing. Ten dollars lets you score a Pride and Prejudice, letterpress bookmark, which will have a small illustration on it. Fifteen dollars garners a letterpress invitation to the Netherfield Ball. Three bookplates, illustrated with an engraving of Austen, can be had for twenty dollars. A detailed prospectus for the books, which will include an illustration and sample text from the books, as well as swatches of the materials used to make them, can be claimed for contributing twenty-five dollars. A five-page, letterpress printed edition of Mr. Darcy’s letter can be had for forty-five dollars. And fifty dollars allows you to claim a broadside of the opening page of the novel, with an embellished design of its famous first sentence, suitable for framing. Other perks may also be claimed for larger contributions, including a discount on a collection of some of the ephemera or on the books themselves, should anyone be able to delude themselves that they can afford such things and, as some of us have, that you can’t live without them.
Mr. Morrison’s work as a pressman is impeccable and his engravings are exquisite. He’s done a delightful edition of Oscar Wilde’s the Importance of Being Earnest and a folio of two letters from Austen books. Ms. Simenson is no novice to her work either, but has honed her exceptional skill as a book binder over the past dozen years or so. The artistry of her work is readily apparent in the edition of Shakespeare’s Pericles she bound for the Barbarian Press, if not in her sketches of the bindings she and Mr. Morrison envision for regular and deluxe states of Pride and Prejudice.
Anyone who would like a letterpress Austen bookmark or an invitation to the Netherfield Ball, or who might need a perfect gift of ephemera for someone who loves Austen's books, or who just enjoys handling and reading letterpress books and wants to ensure that well-made books will continue to be made, might like to take a look and consider joining the crowd contributing to Mr. Morrison’s campaign.
