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Making Books
Making Books: Fifty Years of Barbarian Press
1 September 2027 to 31 March 2028
Barbarian Press is a small letterpress printing house that has been publishing limited-edition books by hand for nearly five decades. As the Press celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2027, this exhibition brings together a selection of books and ephemera that reflect the breadth and achievement of its distinguished publishing history. As a husband and wife team, Crispin and Jan Elsted operate their presses on a large wooded acreage in Steelhead, British Columbia where they carry out their painstaking work as private press printers and publishers. Reflecting on the Press’s style, the Elsteds explain on their website how they approach bookmaking: “The design and making of beautiful books is only secondarily a matter of self-expression; its first excellence is to serve the author and the reader” (www.barbarianpress.com/aboutthepress.html).