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The Blue Print Press - Janine Raedts

 

Via Mezzavilla 26A, 31029 - Vittorio Veneto (TV) - Italy 

phone: +39 3200 5252 89

email: theblueprintpress@gmail.com

janine raedts

The Blue Print Press is a private letterpress studio, founded in Vittorio Veneto (Italy) by Janine Raedts in 2013.

My love for books and reading led me to attend first one course (but ended up being several!) letterpress courses. Most of which were held by the late Italian printer Alessandro Zanella (1955 - 2012) of the Ampersand press in Verona. A new chapter was marked by the arrival of an 1865 Hopkinson & Cope Albion hand press and two wooden type cabinets. Both of which were purchased from Hull Art College and shipped to Italy in 2009.

 

Now more than 10 years on, I still prefer to print carefully chosen poems by letterpress. The primary focus is on hand-made, one-poem pamphlet books printed in very small editions. Illustration often finds a role in my books, taking many forms including linocut, engraving, etching, aquatint, debossing, watercolour and photograph by commissioned visual artists.

 

My work resides in private, public and institutional collections in the UK, US and Europe.​​

Photo, video and website credits: Maddy Vettorello

Albion press 1895

Highlights

Upcoming work by Jericho Brown

a portable paradise - roger robinson
subterranean homesick blues
on peut rever - kate clanchy
on peut rever - kate clanchy

Between Wind and Clouds

Poets Need Not

The Widening Sky

Inventori di Lettere

the road to lichfield - penelope lively

The Road to Lichfield

Collections

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Jean & Alexander Heard Libraries (Vanderbilt University)

 

 

 

 

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Glasgow Women's Library 

 

Mitchell Library (Glasgow)

University of Chicago Library (Special Collection/Rare books)

 

 

 

 

 

Bodleian Libraries

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Events

forum bibliofili affamati
wayzgoose
the oxford fine press book fair

Forum dei Bibliofili Affamati 

Oxford Fine Press Book Fair

Wayzgoose Oxford

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