Sponsored by The Caxton Club. February Evening Program Book artist and letterpress printer Jessica Spring will share strange-but-true tales of her journey from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest, guided by wise mentors – and some villains – who continue to inspire another climb into the press bed. Spring began her interest in typography as a […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club. There’s nothing like a good moral panic about how young people are spending their time to get the blood boiling – whether it’s the presence of a pool table (Trouble, right here in River City!), corrupting comic books, or the perils of Snapchat. That’s why Anthony Comstock’s 1883 conduct book Traps […]
Sponsored by The Caxton Club. February Evening Program In this program, Ed Potten and Elizabeth Savage will introduce Caxton Club members to an entirely new way of understanding woodblocks: as blocks of wood, which are organic materials that can be carbon-dated. The talk will introduce carbon-dating in book collector-friendly terms, survey our proof-of-concept project to […]