Letterpress 3-run broadside printed with a Vandercook Proof Press on Johannot dampened paper. Text from Marcel Proust's À la Recherche du Temps Perdu (In Search of Lost Time), Vol. V: La Prisonnière (The Captive). The metal type was handset in Spectrum and Gill Sans and the original illustration was printed from a polymer plate. Map based on the Atlantis projection by John Bartholomew, 1948. Designed and printed by Amanda Johnson in 2013 at the UICB, 9.75 × 12.5 in, edition of 35.
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The polymer plate I used to print my image.
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Mixing up the ink...
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Printing a rainbow roll on the Vandercook is difficult!
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