Letterpress Printing: Past, Present, Future brings together scholars, curators, collectors and printers to assess the current state of letterpress printing. It acknowledges the decline of letterpress as a commercial printing technique and considers the risks this poses for letterpress¿s future. However, in describing the many uses to which letterpress is put and the diverse communities of printers who still work with it, the book celebrates the tenacity of letterpress as a process which continues to thrive despite such challenges. Letterpress Printing examines the continuing life of letterpress and applauds its revival through describing the circumstances in which it flourishes and the many ways it is now used. By setting this revival in the context of its ostensible decline, the book sets out the ways in which current practice draws upon and preserves the history of printing while taking it in new and unexpected directions.

Contents: Designers in the Composing Room: A Progressive Tale of Typographic Transgression - A Tangible Space: Letterpress Printing within Artists' Books and Small Publishing Practice - An Education in Letterpress: Charting the History of Letterpress Education in the United Kingdom and Ireland - Preserving Historically Correct Letterpress Printing in Theory and Practice - Between Theory and Practice: Bringing Letterpress and Digital Together in Printing Museums - Inmediate Writing: Pavel Büchler and the Logic of Letterpress - Letterpress in Portugal: The Future of Design and Its Engagement with Past Printing Techniques - P22 Blox: Space- Age Letterpress Modularity - East Meets West: Merging Technology, Language and Culture.