Thursday, December 24, 2009

Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design

Chester River Press is pleased to announce that our letterpress limited edition of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness has been named the 2010 recipient of the Carl Hertzog Award for Excellence in Book Design. The book's designers and printers, James Dissette and Chad Pastotnik, will receive the award at a ceremony in February. The award is presented by the Friends of the University Library of the University of Texas at El Paso, and is the most prestigious award of its kind.

Well deserved congratulations to Jim and Chad for a superb labor of love and art. The books were printed at Chad's Deep Wood Press and bound at Bessenberg Bindery, both in Michigan. Our partnership with Chad on this project was truly extraordinary. For information on this fine edition of Conrad visit our website.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Scaling the Walls of Troy - Part Three.

This concludes the story of the design, printing and publishing of the Chester River Press edition of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. We just received our advance copy of the set and we are very pleased indeed. Two folio volumes, in slipcase, black cloth binding with gold foil design and spine titles, top edge gilt, ribbon markers, text in Greek and English, and over fifty full-page, tipped-in original art pieces in the Greek vase styles. The art is stunning, and these modern books have the look and feel of classic folios.