British Columbia Fine Printing Collection

Fine/private presses have a distinguished history in British Columbia. Founded in Vancouver in 1946, the Private Press of Robert R. Reid was the first of its kind in Canada. The British Columbia Fine Printing collection contains digitized publications and ephemera of several B.C. fine/private presses. In addition to items from Reid's early career in Vancouver, the collection features works by Takao Tanabe (Periwinkle Press), Jim Rimmer (Pie Tree Press & Type Foundry), Jan & Crispin Elsted (Barbarian Press), Rollin Milroy (Heavenly Monkey), Gerald Giampa (Cobblestone Press) and many others.

Attribution

Attribution/citation should be provided as follows: Image [insert image number here, eg. bcpba:298] courtesy of the British Columbia Fine Printing Collection, a digital initiative of Simon Fraser University Library. [Please include the website url when images are used in an offline or print-based context].

Acknowledgements

SFU Special Collections and Rare Books gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre's "B.C. History Digitization Program" to make this collection available online.

Contributed by Special Collections and Rare Books, Simon Fraser University Library.

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The New Design Gallery 'Guide to happier daze'

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Name(s): Tanabe, Takao
Description: Poster advertising the New Design Gallery's summer schedule.

The New Design Gallery Herbert Gilbert paintings & prints

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Date: 1963
Name(s): Tanabe, Takao
Description: Poster by Takao Tanabe to advertise an opening at the New Design Gallery.

The Paper Mills of Amalfi

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Date: 2003
Name(s): Dair, Carl, Milroy, Rollin
Description: Introduction and afterword by Robert R. Reid. copy number 39.

The Pie Tree Press of Jim Rimmer

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Date: 2006
Name(s): Reid, Robert R. (Robert Russell), 1927-2022
Description: Broadside created for Rimmerfest, 25 November 2006.

The Play of Pericles prospectus

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Date: 2006
Name(s): Elsted, Jan, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Description: Announcement of Barbarian Press edition of 'The play of Pericles Prince of Tyre' by William Shakespeare, with passages from George Wilkins' 'The Painfull Adventures of Pericles Prince of Tyre.' Edited and introduced by Crispin Elsted, with wood engravings by Simon Brett.

The proceedings of an academic symposium held at the University of British Columbia

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Date: 1960
Name(s): Kuthan, Georges, 1916-1966, McGregor, Malcolm F., Reid, Robert R. (Robert Russell), 1927-2022
Description: The decorative initials in this book are by George Kuthan, and are printed from linoleum blocks cut by the artist. The book was designed by Robert R. Reid and printed in Baskerville type on Strathmore paper by Morriss Printing Company Ltd., Victoria.'

The quality of halves and other poems

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Date: 1958
Name(s): Fiamengo, Marya, Tanabe, Takao
Description: Title page of a Klanak Press publication designed by Takao Tanabe.

The same sea in us all

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Date: 1985
Name(s): Elsted, Crispin, Elsted, Jan, Kaplinski, Jaan, 1941-2021
Description: Announcement of the Barbarian Press edition of 'The same sea in us all' by Jaan Kaplinski

The Trails at Bear Creek

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Name(s): Rimmer, Jim
Description: Cut on Particle Board. Housing development

There must be variety…

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Date: 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956
Name(s): Reid, Robert R. (Robert Russell), 1927-2022
Description: Ink blotter designed by Robert Reid for Grant-Mann Lithographers. Examples of the following type faces available from Grant-Mann Lithographers: Chisel, Playbill, Graphique, Nobel, Profil.

There once was a man who lived alone by himself, never seeing other people, just him living in that place'

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Date: 2005
Name(s): Rimmer, Jim
Description: This is the first proof of a modern-day cutting of the Cree syllabic forms devised by Rev. James Evans in the early nineteenth century. The matrices were cut between July 3 and 6 of 2005 by Jim Rimmer, assisted by Christopher Chen.'

These Three Poems

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Date: 1982
Name(s): Giampa, Gerald, Graff, Tom
Description: Pamphlet printed by Gerald Giampa, in an edition of 200 copies.

Three bar: the story of Douglas Lake

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Date: 1960
Name(s): Carroll, Campbell, Kuthan, Georges, 1916-1966, Tanabe, Takao
Description: Title page and endpapers designed by Takao Tanabe.

Three-dimensional Graphique

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Date: 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956
Name(s): Reid, Robert R. (Robert Russell), 1927-2022
Description: Ink blotter designed by Robert Reid for Grant-Mann Lithographers. Example of type faces Graphique and News Gothic Condensed available from Grant-Mann Lithographers.

Trial design proof for a projected edition of 'New World Suite No. 3'

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Date: 1993
Name(s): Bringhurst, Robert, Elsted, Crispin, Elsted, Jan
Description: Broadside