Oak Knoll

Autumn 2009 / Number 17 / Paul Razzell, Editor

NOTE THIS IS FOR THE DELUXE EDITION which is hardbound with a slipcase and also includes a portfolio with seven pieces of ephemera.

News & Commentary
In Brief
Chairmans Letter | Robert McCamant

Presses
Oak Tree Fine Press | Nancy Bray
The Larkspur Press | Bob Baris
Working with Ronald Searle | Dennis Hall

Lives Lived
Gerald Giampa, 19502009 | Robert Bringhurst

Features
Leonard Baskin and the Art of Printing | Sid Berger
The Early Days of Bird & Bull Press | Henry Morris

New Markets
Selling to a Niche Market: Some Personal Reflections | Jeremy Wilson
From Fine Press to Trade Books: Some Thoughts on Changing Sides | Dennis Hall

History
Le Crapouillot | Mike Barnes
Postage Stamps by Designers of Metal Types | Michael Russem

Methods
Drawing with Smoke | Russell Maret
Design Casebook: Lumiere Press | Michael Torosian
Hell-bent for Codex | Judith Rothchild
Making The Vandercook Book | Barbara Henry and Roni Gross

In Type
Remaking Gutenbergs Donatus-Kalendar Type | Mike Anderson

Reviews
Mediæval in Padua | reviewed by Robert Bringhurst
Five Poems | reviewed by Bruce Whiteman
A Legacy of Letters | reviewed by Andrew Hoyem
An American Gallery | reviewed by David Evans
Airs & Angels and Mad Farmer Poems | reviewed by Jan Elsted
Insecta | reviewed by Alice Schreyer
W2LZX | reviewed by David Pankow

Reference Shelf
The Surface of Meaning | reviewed by Sebastian Carter
book art object | reviewed by Paul Razzell
In Black & White: A Wood Engravers Odyssey | reviewed by Pete Lawrence

Books Briefly Noted | Paul W. Nash.