[New-Poetry] The Book 1.0

[jforjames at aol.com]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/25/BAHH160N5G.DTL&hw=ferriss&sn=001&sc=1000


The course, which began in 1983, gets glowing evaluations from students, Bliss said.


"They'll write, "This is the best damn class I've had at Berkeley in four years," he said. "That's a quote."


Besides the antique Albion machine, the press room houses type cases, galleys, a 19th century etcher's press and a press manufactured in 1890 that had been in storage for 20 years - until the expanded Bancroft space could accommodate it.


After distributing the ink over glass laid flat on a table, Ferriss, who also runs a printing and book design business out of his Healdsburg home, demonstrated how to put it on the press. 


"The roller just kisses the face of the type," he said. "It's all in the eye and hand and experience. The press is only a machine."

He spoke of bars, rails, coffins and beds. Printer's talk.


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