After six years in my last post my desk drawers had accumulated all sorts of ephemeral bits and bobs: print samples, direct mail, promo pieces, clippings and whatnot. So, with an amount of enthusiasm, I set about clearing them out. Print samples were piled up for filing, leaflets and flyers were either dispatched to the bin or my bag for home. Some bin-bound stuff was trashed with enormous pleasure but with an equal amount of joy, unearthed loveliness was entrusted to an envelope, to come away with me.
I can't remember where I got this Incline Press printed celebratory keepsake. At first I thought it must have been way back in 1990 at Type90 in Oxford but although that year has relevance, this wasn't letterpressed until some years later. 2005 doesn't ring any bells, although I have a vague recollection of receiving a couple of things through the post from St Bride's. Anyway, none of that really matters. Needless to say, this came with me.
your blog is beautiful ! thanks from Paris !
Posted by: bénédicte | 16 March 2011 at 09:00 PM
Glad you enjoyed it - it's from one of my favourite pieces of Hans Schmoller's writings, which are difficult to get quotes suitable for such a purpose from.
It was done as a keepsake for Jerry Cinamon's talk on Schmoller at St Bride's Library in 2005. Cinamon worked with Schmoller at Penguin, and was responsible for the Monotype Recorder that was issued to commemorate Schmoller's work. To keep the whole of one piece and appropriate, I used an ornament that was penned by Berthold Wolpe.
Graham Moss/Incline Press
Posted by: Graham Moss | 20 March 2011 at 10:15 AM