Are all Limited Editions Club books letterpress?
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1Benjamin314
I cant seem to find information on this. I searched some stuff up and it says that MOST of LEC books are letterpress however there is no detail on what the exceptions are.
Does anyone have a list of the books that are letterpress and the books that are not letterpress?
I bought "The Captains Daughter and other stories, by Pushkin" the other day and I think it is letterpress. However I am really new to book collecting and I don't know that much about what Letterpress is suppose to feel like.
Does anyone have a list of the books that are letterpress and the books that are not letterpress?
I bought "The Captains Daughter and other stories, by Pushkin" the other day and I think it is letterpress. However I am really new to book collecting and I don't know that much about what Letterpress is suppose to feel like.
2GusLogan
>1 Benjamin314:
From reading previous discussions here it is my distinct impression (see what I did?) that virtually all the LEC books are letterpress printed in various ways (from handsetting to more modern solutions still to do with physical pressure as opposed to offset printing or whatever the proper term is), the exceptions being in the low single figures.
From reading previous discussions here it is my distinct impression (see what I did?) that virtually all the LEC books are letterpress printed in various ways (from handsetting to more modern solutions still to do with physical pressure as opposed to offset printing or whatever the proper term is), the exceptions being in the low single figures.
3Django6924
>1 Benjamin314:
Much of the feel of letterpress depends on whether the printer favored a "bite" impression, which indents the paper, or a "kiss" impression which may not have any indentation. The Grabhorn Press favored a "bite" impression and the Colt Armory press they used created so deep an impression it could be felt on the reverse side of the paper. Many pressmen felt that if the indentation was that deep it was not fine presswork.
I don't know if anyone has compiled a list of the LECs which were printed offset; the one I am sure which was, and the fact is even trumpeted in the Monthly Letter, was The Lyrical Poems of François Villon.
Much of the feel of letterpress depends on whether the printer favored a "bite" impression, which indents the paper, or a "kiss" impression which may not have any indentation. The Grabhorn Press favored a "bite" impression and the Colt Armory press they used created so deep an impression it could be felt on the reverse side of the paper. Many pressmen felt that if the indentation was that deep it was not fine presswork.
I don't know if anyone has compiled a list of the LECs which were printed offset; the one I am sure which was, and the fact is even trumpeted in the Monthly Letter, was The Lyrical Poems of François Villon.
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