Fine Print (periodical)

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Fine Print
Editor and Publisher Sandra Kirshenbaum
CategoriesBook Arts, Typography, Type Design
Frequencyquarterly
FounderSandra Kirshenbaum
Year founded1975 (1975)
Final issue1990 (1990)
Country United States
Based in San Francisco
Language English
ISSN 0361-3801

Fine Print was an American highly-respected [1] periodical about book arts. It was founded in 1975 as an eight-page "Newsletter for the Arts of the Book".

From the "Complete Index": [2] "Its initial purpose was to present bibliographic descriptions of finely printed books (i.e., letterpress) along with reports on allied arts like hand bookbinding, calligraphy, and papermaking." Eminent authors of articles in "Fine Print" included Joseph Blumenthal, Sumner Stone, Walter Tracy, Abe Lerner, and Paul Hayden Duensing.

The covers were remarkable. Writing in Parenthesis, Rabin D. Harlan says:

With the October 1979 issue, separate covers were introduced, each designed by a different person who might be a calligrapher, a printer, a type designer, or a practitioner of such other crafts. Adrian Wilson’s cover design inaugurated this series, which became the talk of the trade. Everyone has her or his own favorite cover design. The entire corpus will continue to be studied and admired by practitioners. students. and connoisseurs. [1]

Other covers were designed by Hermann Zapf and others.

The periodical ceased publication with volume 16, number 4: "The Complete Index to Fine Print" (2003). The last regular issue was in 1990. The journal's papers are now with the Bancroft Library. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "The Example of Fine Print". Parenthesis. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  2. The Complete Index to Fine Print, 1975-1990. Oak Knoll Press. 2003. ISBN   1584560967.
  3. "Fine Print Records, circa 1950-1992 (bulk 1974-1990)" (PDF). Retrieved 14 September 2020.