Portrait of a Universal One : Vandercook no. 23564 / Katherine McCanless Ruffin

Portrait of a Universal One : Vandercook no. 23564 / Katherine McCanless Ruffin

Broadsides


FA.FFS33.3322
28 x 36 cm; 11" x 14" (meant to be folded to 28 x 18 cm (11" x 7"))
2007
A letterpress printed sheet, meant to be folded in half. The text is printed in black. The sheet is illustrated with a profile view of a Vandercook Universal One press; the illustration is created by combining wood and metal type letters and punctuation, printed in black and silver. The colophon reads: "Printed by Katherine McCanless Ruffin at Shinola Press in 2007." Printed as part of the work "Vandercook Book" by Barbara Henry and Roni Gross. CBA has one copy, this is copy 1, mounted on a sheet of black paper, 35.5 x 43 cm (14" x 17")