Above: hand-woven binding by Book Arts, one of the oldest printers in Washington DC of Florentine-trained bookmakers.
.As recounted in his 1974 Paris Review interview, Vladimir Nabokov, who was raised in a trilingual household, frequently employed linguistic wordplay in his work, as well as critique of "poshlost", which Nabokov defined to that journal in 1967 as “Corny trash, vulgar clichés, Philistinism in all its phases, imitations of imitations, bogus profundities, crude, moronic, and dishonest pseudo-literature.” That was over a half-century ago, and the decline into literary and cultural poshlost has only gotten worse. Thusly, in the name of an unwavering belief in the art of the printed word and the eternal primacy of the written word, we humbly venture forth inspired by a counter-revolutionary, counter cancel-culture espirit to produce and promote excellence in literary and journalistic art.
We work with the finest bookmaker in Washington DC, Book Arts, a four-decade family operation based on Florentine traditions of the craft. They are the go-to printer of The White House, the United States Department of State, all major embassies, as well as institutions rannging from the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg to the Vatican to the International Monetary Fund . Their work is exquisite and their prices broad-ranged. For the magazines shown, these are printed by a top Los Angeles design firm that is serious and 'Old School'.
Born during the Plantagenet era of the early English Renaissance, William Caxton was an English merchant, diplomat, and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England, in 1476, and as a printer was the first English retailer of printed books. On a business trip he witnessed the growing industry of printing in Cologne. Although the first book he is known to have produced was an edition of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, he went on to publish chivalric romances, classical works, and English
and Roman histories, and to edit many others. He was the first to translate Aesop's Fables in 1484.
Above: "Beauty will save the world"--Dostoevsky's famous phrase defines the ethos of this imprint and St. George is our symbol. The original artwork is by Gabriele Reina, a Milan-based artist.
We work with the finest bookmaker in Washington DC, Book Arts, a four-decade family operation based on Florentine traditions of the craft. They are the go-to printer of The White House, the United States Department of State, all major embassies, as well as institutions rannging from the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg to the Vatican to the International Monetary Fund . Their work is exquisite and their prices broad-ranged. For the magazines shown, these are printed by a top Los Angeles design firm that is serious and 'Old School'.
Born during the Plantagenet era of the early English Renaissance, William Caxton was an English merchant, diplomat, and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England, in 1476, and as a printer was the first English retailer of printed books. On a business trip he witnessed the growing industry of printing in Cologne. Although the first book he is known to have produced was an edition of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, he went on to publish chivalric romances, classical works, and English
and Roman histories, and to edit many others. He was the first to translate Aesop's Fables in 1484.
Above: "Beauty will save the world"--Dostoevsky's famous phrase defines the ethos of this imprint and St. George is our symbol. The original artwork is by Gabriele Reina, a Milan-based artist.
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