Letterpress work

[NaphtaliPress]

Any one on PB familiar with or done Letterpress work?

 

[crhoades]

Thinking about doing this for the new edition of the Standards? uhh...that would be cool.

 

[NaphtaliPress]

Thinking about doing this for the new edition of the Standards? uhh...that would be cool.

Possibly; but as someone in the biz said to me yesterday, "price is everything." It could simply be unsellable. Would there be any interest in a limited edition fine press edition of the Standards? We are talking about something that might actually go up in value over time. The problem is the factors are many. Paper (handmade or simply high end book?), creating the type plates, then all the ways to go on binding, which alone could push the price considerably if one were to go leather, raised bands, and the whole nine yards. I've thought about doing something fine press since before creating Naphtali. The technology, and my personal situation, may make it possible; but is it a fool's errand I wonder? There are plenty of cheap editions out there; but it would be nice to do the last serious print job of the standards before electronic paper kills the book; sort of a nice capstone to my research on all the various editions of the Westminster Standards over the last 350 years. Still a dream, but am doing the research seriously now.