Rocket Ephemera (4 results)

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Three items of ephemera from 1991 and 1992, all in fine condition.

30 pieces, various formats, chiefly single sheets, some illustrated. A collection of 30 pieces of ephemera (including one duplicate) from the Rocket Press. The Rocket Press started as the schoolboy hobby of Jonathan Stephenson, aged 13 in 1977, when he was introduced to the world of hand-typesetting and letterpress printing. When Stephenson left school aged 16, The Rocket Press became a professional printing studio equipped with Monotype casting machines and cylinder printing presses. In the two decades up to 1997 more than fifty books and pamphlets were designed, type-set and printed, several of them winning awards for fine printing. In 1997 Stephenson closed the letterpress studio and switched to digital typography. In 2015 the Lilly Library, University of Bloomington, Indiana purchased the entire archive of The Rocket Press from the years when it operated as a Fine Press between 1977 and 1997. Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. One of a limited edition of eighty sets only. Contained within a cloth covered box with a title plate tipped to spine and a colour illustration mounted on the front and rear of the box. More than 60 pieces of ephemera produced between 1985 and 1994 counted in this box. All in fine condition.

ONE OF 80 SETS containing 55 pieces of letterpress printing by Jonathan Stephenson at his Rocket Press, printed in a variety of sizes, colours and on various colour papers, folio, original mid brown drop-down back box, printed labels with two-colour linocut to top and bottom of the box, title-label to backstrip, top edge a little dusty, near fine. Similar in concept and execution to the Libanus Press's 'Daylight Jobbery' collections, the collection shows the range and scope - as well as the skill - of Jonathan Stephenson at his Rocket Press; a mix of keepsakes, invitations, advertisements, leaflets and booklets of various types, some with their own stated limitations.