Jaffe Center celebrates Letterpress Appreciation

September 14, 2011   ·   0 Comments

BOCA RATON — The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts is celebrating the number 0.918 inches, the standard height of wood and metal type in the U.S. and U.K., at its second annual Letterpress Appreciation Day Open House Sunday, September 14, from noon to 4 p.m. at the Wimberly Library, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.

There will be tours of the center’s letterpress studio and printing, both on the center’s antique Wesel Iron Handpress and on its Vandercook 4 Proofing Press. The open house, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by Convivio Bookworks, a downtown Lake Worth studio that specializes in limited letterpress-printed books and broadsides.

Donations to the nonprofit Jaffe Center, which is devoted to the study of hand papermaking, letterpress printing and bookbinding, will be accepted. For more information, call 561-297-0455.

By aheizer