<p>In this lavishly illustrated memoir, over 450 images, by one of the eminent handpress printers of the late 20th-centruy, Rummonds describes his passionate efforts to produce beautiful, limited editions on 19th-century printing equipment and handset type. His adventures as an American expatriate working in Verona, Italy, in the 1970s are filled with peccadillos and delightful encounters with many contemporary writers including Borges, Burgess, Pasolini, Calvino, Cheever, Zweig, Spicer, and Gioia. The book also includes sixty-three recipes, mostly Italian.</p>

Fantasies & Hard Knocks: My Life as a Printer

Richard-Gabriel Rummonds

Ex Ophidia Press

Printing on the Iron Handpress

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Oaknoll

Nineteenth-century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress

Imprint unknown

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