tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-248508152011-07-28T12:47:30.619-07:00Printer and publisher of limited-edition books. Paul Razzell, Proprietor.Paul Razzellnoreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24850815.post-9554858856927561342009-09-15T08:15:00.000-07:002010-02-26T12:25:59.148-08:00

We are really looking forward to seeing this in print. Five Cavafy poems newly translated by David Smulders and illustrated with five new wood engravings by Peter Lazarov. Due out in the summer of 2010. The edition will be around 60 copies. Please direct all inquiries to inferno_press [at] mac [dot] com. Shown here are two of Peter Lazarov's wood engravings from the book. Images are copyright

Paul Razzellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24850815.post-53907206144985468492009-06-16T15:56:00.001-07:002009-06-17T11:19:18.739-07:00

By Sem HartzNote: As part of my long-standing interest in the work of Dutch type designer Sem Hartz, I am pleased to reproduce the following essay, which was published in the 1958 Penrose Annual to accompany the first specimen of Hartz's Linotype Juliana. — Paul RazzellIt is somewhat bewildering to the artist in these times of machine perfection to be commissioned to do a job like designing a new

Paul Razzellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24850815.post-1157064491292836972006-08-31T15:48:00.000-07:002010-02-26T12:54:19.209-08:00

There are few things we enjoy more than an engrossing book about Dutch type design. By the same token, there are few things more frustrating than not being able to find books published in English that deal with the work of a favourite Dutch designer. Such is the case with Sem Hartz, a gifted engraver and designer who lived—and died—under the shadow of his colleague, Jan van Krimpen. Perhaps for

Paul Razzellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24850815.post-1143951126277541842006-04-01T20:11:00.000-08:002009-04-02T13:41:41.583-07:00

a parody of stanley morison's prose.printed in an edition of 100 numbered copies. in print.“The pamphlet is a most entertaining parody of Morison’s rigorous researches and exacting literary style. It is also well-designed and printed. The pages — set on a computer in digitized Fell and printed letterpress from polymer plates — are well laid out with proper margins, and the presswork is very

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