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detail, Thorpe Feidt, Miss Nightingale Meets the Big Dream

 
IMPOSITION PRESS is Montserrat's teaching and working letterpress studio, and the physical center of the College's book arts programs, including a Book Arts concentration to be launched in Fall 2008. Imposition Press is used for courses in letterpress printing and traditional bookbinding; for units in book arts and other courses; for occasional workshops; and for student, faculty and College projects.

The press is located in the basement of the College's Hardie Building. Direct queries, encomiums and brickbats to Sarah Smith, Ethan Berry or John McVey.

news

  • The Imposition Press broadside series debuted on Tuesday, 11 March 2008 with the publication of "Miss Nightingale Meets the Big Dream," an excerpt from Thorpe Feidt's The Leibniz-Newton Effect. During an inaugural event at the Paul Scott Library, Professor Feidt declaimed the entirety of the printed passage, following a variety of introductions, context-makings and obeisances. The "trade" edition of the broadside — 100 copies — is available for purchase, $15 for students, $20 for others. Contact Imposition Press if you would like to obtain one.
  • Book Arts colloquium
    Watch for announcements of Saturday morning colloquia, in which participants discuss a reading or readings on or related to the book arts generally; examine work; host guests; attend to business.

    Next meeting Saturday 29 March, 8:30 am. details and agenda to follow.

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friends
thanks for their gifts of time, knowledge, equipment to:

Sam Ellenport (Harcourt Bindery)
Vincent Ferrini (1913-2007)
  about   papers at UConn Storrs
Gail Herscher
Dan Kelleher
Gardner LaPoer (Museum of Printing)
Paul Maguire
Roger Martin
Paul McNutt
Robert Townsend
Fred Wales (Beachcomber Press)
 

  21 March 08