Ocean | Paper | Stone catalogue cover – William Hoffer, Robert Bringhurst, 1984

Notes

The catalogue of an exhibition of printed objects which chronicle more than a century of literary publishing in British Columbia: compiled by Robert Bringhurst and published by the Vancouver book seller William Hoffer. The catalogue also lists contemporary practitioners.

In an email dated March 16, 2021, Robert Bringhurst says: “I did indeed do the lettering – crude though it is – for the cover and title page of Ocean Paper Stone. It was flagrantly plagiarized from the lettering on a gravestone from Melos now in a museum in Berlin (image attached). Stanley Morison has a B&W photo of the stone in his wonderful book Politics and Script, which is where I first saw it.”

Also see; Reader, Lover of Books, Lover of Heaven, 1978 and Reader, Lover of Books, 1981, two books which chronicle the private press in Ontario. All three books are a valuable record of the small and private press movement in these two provinces. – Rod McDonald

  • Category
    Publications

    Title
    Ocean, Paper, Stone

    Date
    1984

    Client
    William Hoffer, Vancouver

    Credits
    Design: Robert Bringhurst
    Typography: West Graphika Limited
    Printing: Benwell-Atkins Ltd.

    Principal Typefaces
    Cover: Hand-lettering (Robert Bringhurst), Poppl-Pontifex Regular and Bold (Berthold)
    Text: Poppl-Pontifex Regular and Italic

    Description
    Two-colour, 112 pp
    Size: 5.5 × 8.375 inches

    Region
    British Columbia

    Language
    English

    Images
    2

    Holding
    Canadian Typography Archives

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