Cloth, dust jacket
2016 · New Castle, Delaware
by Johnston, Alastair M.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. Cloth, dust jacket. 10.5 x 8 inches. Cloth, dust jacket. 232 pages. "Alastair Johnston's engaging and all-embracing survey of California printing takes us from its early beginnings in the 1870s (San Francisco's first type foundry opened in 1874), and covers all the printers we encountered in California, including himself, and a great many others besides."
- John Randle, Matrix
"Through the lens of Johnson's expertise, we again see how fine art printing coexists with the design of tinned salmon labels and business cards, or how hand-compositing became simultaneously a mainstay (truncated)
- John Randle, Matrix
"Through the lens of Johnson's expertise, we again see how fine art printing coexists with the design of tinned salmon labels and business cards, or how hand-compositing became simultaneously a mainstay (truncated)