[Yale-readings] TOMORROW Sept. 22, 2pm--Thornwillow Press Talk

Nancy Kuhl nancy.kuhl at yale.edu
Tue Sep 21 13:15:36 EDT 2004


>Please join us for a talk by Luke Ives Pontifell, the president of 
>Thornwillow Press, on Wednesday, September 22, at 2 pm in the Sterling 
>Memorial Library lecture hall, 120 High Street, New Haven (enter at the 
>Wall Street door). This event is free and open to the public.
>
>Thornwillow Press is a fine press that publishes limited editions of new 
>and classical texts. Pontifell will discuss the press's bookmaking 
>processes, including its workshop in Prague where the handmade papers for 
>the press's editions are made and where traditional hand binding, 
>engraving, and letter press techniques are used to make some of the 
>Thornwillow editions. Pontifell will show examples of Thornwillow 
>publications. For more information about the press, please visit their web 
>page : http://www.thornwillow.com/.
>
>Sponsored by the Yale University Library Standing Committee on 
>Professional Awareness

Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047




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