Episode 50: Tristram Shandy's Printer

Awhile back for one of the NaNoWriMo November's, I wrote a love story between an older male printer and a young female papermaker called Tristram's Printer. The printer lives on an island in the Mississippi River near Guttenberg, Iowa (of course, where else would a printer live?) and says his favorite book to print, if he ever gets around to it, is Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, because of its complex typography. After a disaster of a  marriage, the woman is hired by an artist and artist's agent to learn about bookbinding, papermaking, and typography. She travels from Chicago to London to Guttenberg when the artist asks her to check out the printer. She does. Love ensues.

Now, for the first time ever!

In the history of bookmaking & printing!

Tristram's Printer and Tristram Shandy Vol. 1

are together again for the first time!

The first section is Tristram's Printer which is 164 pages long and set in a variety of types (as befitting a typographer/printer). Ten signatures of four sheets each. The second section is Volume One of Tristram Shandy and is seven signatures of four sheets and about 113 pages. 277 pages in all (plus a few blank ones.) The book is A5 in size (about 6 1/4" by 81/2") with a hand-backed cloth cover and green endpapers.

Seventeen signatures - that's a lot of sewing.

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