The Devil's Artisan

DEVIL’S ARTISAN #70, SPRING/SUMMER 2012

Featuring the Wood Engraving of Rosemary Kilbourn

DA 70 (Spring 2012) features an essay by Tom Smart entitled The Wood Engravings of Rosemary Kilbourn, illustrated with details of nineteen of the artist’s images and two photographs by Pete Paterson.

The issue also includes an appreciation of Will Rueter’s Aliquando Press written by Donald Taylor, and illustrated with ten photographs.

The Rogue’s Gallery features James Crear Reaney, and includes a portrait by John Reeves.

The Kandid Kamera feature includes photographs of the North Star Press exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, and highlights of the Aliquando Press exhibition at the Carnegie Gallery in Dundas, Rebruary 2012.

Printed offset on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of the Porcupine’s Quill in the Village of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Smyth sewn into 16-page signatures. With coloured endleaves, hand-tipped, front and back.

Keepsake laid in is after an engraving by Rosemary Kilbourn entitled ‘Late August’. Printed letterpress by Nicholas Kennedy at Trip Print Press. The cover was printed offset by Tim Inkster at the Porcupine’s Quill after an original engraving by Rosemary Kilbourn.

  Rosemary Kilbourn. Photo by Pete Paterson.

The Devil's Artisan is remarkable in Canadian publishing in that most of the physical production of our journal is completed in-house at the shop on the Main Street of Erin Village. We print on a twenty-five inch Heidelberg KORD, typically onto acid-free Zephyr Antique laid. The sheets are then folded, and sewn into signatures on a 1907 model Smyth National Book Sewing machine.

To take a virtual tour of the pressroom, visit us at YouTube for a discussion of offset printing in general, and the operation of a Heidelberg KORD in particular. Other videos include Four Colour Printing, Smyth Sewing and Wood Engraving. Photographs of production machinery used on these pages were taken by Sandra Traversy on site at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill, December 2008.