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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Tudor Inn

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Name(s): Rimmer, Jim
Description: Example of a linocut by Jim Rimmer.

Twenty-one small songs

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Date: 2000
Name(s): Elsted, Crispin, Elsted, Jan, Zwicky, Jan, 1955-
Description: Printed in an edition of 146 copies in September 2000.

Two poems

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Date: 1990
Name(s): Purdy, Al, 1918-2000, Rimmer, Jim
Description: Includes the following poems by Al Purdy: 'Blood pressure blues' and 'Concerning Ms. Atwood.' Printed in March 1990 in an edition of 126 copies signed by the poet.

Types of Beauty

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Date: 2006
Name(s): Hunter, Paul, Parson, Tom
Description: Broadside created for Rimmerfest, 25 November 2006.

Typographia

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Date: 1985
Name(s): Rimmer, Jim
Description: Printed in an edition of 30 portfolios.

Typography: an exhibition at the Fine Arts Gallery University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1959

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Date: 1959
Name(s): Reid, Robert R. (Robert Russell), 1927-2022
Description: This booklet has been designed by Robert R. Reid and printed at The Keystone Press Limited in Vancouver, Canada for the Fine Arts Gallery of the University of British Columbia, the Graphic Arts Association of British Columbia, and the Vancouver Club of Printing House Craftsmen.'

UCFV Graphic Design show

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Date: 1997
Name(s): Rimmer, Jim
Description: Invitation to graphic design show of the University College of the Fraser Valley Graphic Design program.

Venus and Adonis

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Date: 2005
Name(s): Elsted, Crispin, Elsted, Jan, English, Andy, Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Description: Published in an edition of 135 copies. Wood-engraved illustrations by Andy English.

What is there about printing which makes such amiable fanatics of us all?'

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Date: 2006
Name(s): Elsted, Crispin, Elsted, Jan
Description: Broadside created for Rimmerfest, 25 November 2006.

When fascism comes to America'

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Date: 2006
Name(s): Stump, Allen
Description: Broadside created for Rimmerfest, 25 November 2006.

When the mill was our mother

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Date: 1990
Name(s): Rimmer, Jim, Trower, Peter, 1930-2017
Description: Colophon Broadsheet Series No. 3

When we lie together: poems from Quebec and poems by G.V. Downes

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Date: 1973
Name(s): Downes, G. V., Tanabe, Takao
Description: Cover and title page designed by Takao Tanabe.

When you think your walk is profitless & a failure, & you can hardly persuade yourself not to return, it is on the point of being a success, for then you are in that subdued & knocking mood to which nature never fails to open'

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Date: 2006
Name(s): Dunfield, Gary, Steeves, Andrew
Description: Broadside created for Rimmerfest, 25 November 2006.

White lunch

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Date: 1964
Name(s): Gilbert, Gerry, Tanabe, Takao
Description: Periwinkle Press book design by Takao Tanabe. Cover and title page only.

William Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night's Dream, II, i

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Date: 1999
Name(s): Brender à Brandis, Gerard, Elsted, Crispin, Elsted, Jan
Description: Announcement of 'Endgrain editions I: The engravings of Gerard Brender à Brandis.' Includes an excerpt from the introduction to the book.