{"id":253,"date":"2010-02-11T20:38:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T10:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2010-02-11T20:38:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T10:38:56","slug":"rare-book-school-days-3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/11\/rare-book-school-days-3-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Book School Days 3 &#038; 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"sorts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/02-Feb10\/sorts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"proof\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/02-Feb10\/proof.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"ros\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/02-Feb10\/ros.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"373\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"margaret\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/02-Feb10\/margaret.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"373\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"platen press\" src=\"http:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/02-Feb10\/platen press.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Printing letterpress can feel a bit like the ascent up the steepest grade of an old-school roller coaster. A slow ratcheting up and up, until finally, the momentum of printing itself takes over. I find myself needing to encourage and reassure through what can seem like painfully slow steps: typesetting, proofing, correcting, proofing again.<\/p>\n<p>This weather hasn&#8217;t helped. A week-long swelter, it&#8217;s hollow humour to suggest that it adds to the 19th century ambience of the enterprise. A thoughtful someone at the State Library arranged a tab for us at Journal Caf\u00c3\u00a9 and their lemon granita hit the spot this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday and this morning saw us proofing the type and making corrections. Page formes have been assembled. Rosalind Atkins, well-known for her exquisite engravings, is in the class and offered to cut a block for us. The chapbook will be bound in a soft wrapper imprinted with the title. This involved a certain amount of gerry-rigging to print a 70cm long sheet on a 10&#215;15 platen, but was possible with a team of five.<\/p>\n<p>The storm started in earnest in the midst of this critical activity, a perfect time to discuss printing damp. Tomorrow is expected to be a welcome 22\u00c2\u00baC, perfect weather for handling paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Printing letterpress can feel a bit like the ascent up the steepest grade of an old-school roller coaster. A slow ratcheting up and up, until finally, the momentum of printing itself takes over. I find myself needing to encourage and reassure through what can seem like painfully slow steps: typesetting, proofing, correcting, proofing again. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.girlprinter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}