Making A Chair

It's a poem on a 11'" x 15" broadside

The Gaiman poem was printed in a limited edition of 300 copies on a Vandercook proof press. The paper is Stonehenge Rising cream 250gm with a deckle edge on the right hand side. The paper is machine-made in the United States, from 100% cotton fibers and is acid-free. The inks used were Van Son and Hostmann & Steinberg oil based and rubber based inks. The typefaces used were Cheltenham roman and italic lead handset moveable type from the California Job Case. Minion Pro and Myriad were printed as digital type.

The digital type was made into letterpress plates by creating a negative and processing the text into photo polymer plates and then mounting the plates onto a boxcar press base for printing. The artwork was created by engraving on the endgrain of Canadian maple wood that was machined to type high blocks for printing. Eight impressions (individual times hand fed through the press) were made for each print making it a total of over 3000 impressions including proof and set-up sheets used in the registration process.

Details of the typefaces used grabbed from wiki:

Cheltenham is an old style serif typeface, designed in 1896 by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and Ingalls Kimball for use by a New York publisher, the Cheltenham Press. Six years later Morris Fuller Benton at American Type Founders (ATF) developed it into a final design and then the series.

Minion is the name of a typeface designed by Robert Slimbach in 1990 for Adobe Systems. The name comes from the traditional naming system for type sizes, in which minion is between nonpareil and brevier. It is inspired by late Renaissance-era type.

Myriad is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly for Adobe Systems. The typeface is best-known for its usage by Apple Inc., replacing Apple Garamond as Apple's corporate font since 2002.

Myriad is easily distinguished from other sans-serif fontsl "y" descender (tail) and slanting "e" cut. Myriad is similar to Frutiger.

Limited to 300 copies, of which 150 are made for sale, the rest going to Neil's Christmas list. This broadside is signed by both Neil and George Walker and sold out at the publisher