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Books covering Albion press?

Hello,

We’ve just taken delivery of a beautiful Albion press. Although my wife has printed using a table top Albion, I’m fairly new to it. I’ve got a copy of Richard Gabriel Rummonds’ Iron Handpress book, but wondered if there were any slightly more basic books (or online resources) covering basic packing, using a frisket etc.?

Any recommendations appreciated.

Thanks,

Simon

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  • The Arm NYC
  • on 25 Jan 09 (18:45)
  • Updated 25 Jan 09 (18:46)

This blog kept by Andy English will be very useful. See the page on covering the tympan.
http://albionstory.blogspot.com/2007/07/covering-tympan-of-1902-albion.h...

The Rummonds book is excellent, as is the one pictured below by Lewis Allen. You can find it used on abebooks.com.

Daniel Morris
The Arm Letterpress
Brooklyn, NY

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Simon…. you are in for a real treat. I can’t explain it in technical details, but there is a special pleasure derived from printing on a hand-press such as an Albion. It’s slower than on a flywheel or lever platen press, but it more than makes up for slowness in the amount of control you have in inking.