The Word Made Flesh

Item

Title
The Word Made Flesh
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Creator
Drucker, Johanna [American author and artist, born 1952]
Date
1996
Description
This is a facsimile reprint of copy #50 of the original letterpress edition. The quality of the wooden letters and metal type used in the original has been preserved in this version. It was shot on a Companica process camera and hand developed by Brad Freeman. The book was offset printed on a Heidelberg GTO in the summer of 1996 at SoHo Services in New York. The covers were hand printed by Johanna Drucker at Druckwerk in New Haven from polymer letterpress plates produced at SoHo Letterpress in New York. Finally, it was bound by Jill Jevne in McGregor, Minnesota. Published by Steven Clay, Granary Books, New York, in an edition of 500 copies. The Druckwerk edition was produced in winter 1988-89 at the Bow and Arrow Press in the basement of Adams House at Harvard University with the kind assistance and support of Jim Barondess and Gino Lee. In that printing it required three runs: one for the large black wooden letters which spell out the title throughout the book, one for the smaller black letters, and one for the red field. It was printed letterpress in hand-set type and the justification of the small black letters was the major challenge. That edition consisted of 50 copies, bound with rivets in metallic cover papers.
Publisher
Granary Press
1996 [publication date]
1989 [creation date]
Contributor
Tony Moreno
Is Part Of
1980 to Present
Media
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