It’s Fine Press Friday!
This week we bring you The Secret Sharer: An Episode from the Coast by Polish-British author, Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), with three etchings by Bruce Chandler (b. 1945), published by The Limited Editions Club, New York City,1985.
This short story was first published in two parts in the August and September 1910 issues of Harper’s Magazine. It was published in a collection of short stories called Twixt Land and Sea in 1912.
Bruce Chandler is a printer, publisher and the proprietor of Heron Press in Boston, Massachusetts. He printed his two color etching at his own Heron Press for this publication. The second etching was printed at Water Street Press, and the last print, a dry-point print, was printed by R.E. Townsend.
The book was designed by Ben Shiff and Bruce Chandler. The papers were made at Cartiere Enrico Magnani. The text was set in Monotype Van Dijck at Mackenzie and Harris, Inc. This edition of 1500 copies was printed by Darrell Hyder. The book was bound by Dennis Gouey.
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-- Teddy, Special Collections Graduate Intern