Jill and I wanted to create something to celebrate the theme of the 2008 American Printing History Associations national conference held in New York City, October 4th - 5th. The theme was “Saving the History of Printing.”

We took a quote we thought was appropriate from Gardener LePoer, Executive Director of The Museum of Printing in Andover, Massachusetts, that he had said when we were there buying an 1890 Albion iron handpress. We provided 125 copies to the attendees at the conference. We also provided 20 copies to The Museum of Printing.

The image above shows the wood type from our collection which was locked into a form and printed. For the broadside we first handrolled the background with copper ink. Jill designed the headline. I particularly like the “Y” made out of a V and ! and the “o” with the circumflex accent in the word “roof”.

It was fun and there seemed to be none left at the end of the conference. We hope they are adorning office walls around the country and also promote The Museum of Printing.

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