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title:

Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade

author and designer: David Jury
publisher: Rotovision, Brighton
date: 2004, reprinted 2006, 2014

What I hear I forget
What I see I remember
What I do I understand

Cover of Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury, with the title in red wood type above a photo of worn wooden letters

What I hear I forget
What I see I remember
What I do I understand

Spread from Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury: black endpaper opposite a thick smear of red printing ink
Spread from Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury: the title page with LETTERPRESS in large red wood type
Spread from Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury: the contents beside a red stack of printed numerals
Spread from Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury: the introduction with a Robert Bringhurst quotation opposite large red letter a's
Spread from Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury: a Jan Tschichold quotation opposite a photograph of a locked-up forme of metal type
Spread from Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury: a red and black letterpress poster reading I am really sorry Paul! I will never make that mistake again
Spread from Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury: a colourful printed book opening opposite a page of capitals and abstract shapes
Spread from Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury: chapter 3, Independent publishing, with a John Randle quotation and Matrix journal
Spread from Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury: printed pages of text opposite pages from a Morocco book
Spread from Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury: photographs of print workshops opposite drawers of wood type labelled Grot and Gill Bold
Spread from Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury: a manuscript page with red annotations opposite heavily corrected proofs
Spread from Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury: notes opposite the conclusion
Spread from Letterpress: The Allure of the Handmade by David Jury: a smear of pink and red ink opposite a black endpaper