The Singing Line Volume 2 has now been launched at the Tenterden Folk Festival and will be shown with Volume 1 and slipcase at the Fine press Book Association event in Oxford during November 2011.
The Singing Line Volume 2 has now been launched at the Tenterden Folk Festival and will be shown with Volume 1 and slipcase at the Fine press Book Association event in Oxford during November 2011.
The completed forme.
Locking up the type and furniture in the chase to make up the forme for four pages of the first section including the title page. The text will be printed first on the Vicabold platen press and the illustration printed afterwards on the Vandercook cylinder press.
Inserting two 1.5pt leads between lines of type to increase leading to 13pt.
Text revisions
Moving the type. This represents about a third of the set text for SL2.
Cast paragraphs of 10pt Gill set solid produced in lines by the caster with quads to fill out the lines to a measure of 16 ems.
Lead ingot in caster pot
One of the SL2 spools attached to the Monotype Composition Caster at Letterpress Works in Faversham
Nigel knocking the cast ingots out of the moulds
