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Vandercook Presses: Maintenance, History and Resources
3rd Edition by Paul Moxon
This is the essential Vandercook reference book based on Paul Moxon’s popular “Vandercook Maintenance” workshops, with notes on significant models and competing presses. This edition is thoroughly revised with more than one hundred additional drawings, photographs, and data tables.
| Edition | Cover | Pages | Foreword | Graphics | Tables | Logo Gallery | Glossary | Timeline | Bibliography | Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First | Blue | 98 (i–xii, 1–86) | Fritz Klinke | 124 | 11 | 1 | 3 | – | 2 | – |
| Second | Gray | 134 (i–xiv, 1–120) | Gerald Lange | 213 | 27 | 1 | 5 | – | 2 | 5 |
| Third | Red | 160 (-xvi, 1–144) | Basil Head | 334 | 44 | 3 | 4 | – | 4 | 5 |
| Fourth | Brown | 230 (i–xx, 1-210) | Katherine Victoria Taylor | 418 | 58 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
“Sections on how to repair your press will alone pay for the cost of the book over and over again….. An absolute must for the professional library, and the crème de la crème of press manuals.”
Gerald Lange, from the Foreword to the second edition
Organizations that hold this title:
| Alabama, University of | Longwood University | School of the Arts Institute of Chicago |
| Albion College | Mackenzie Printery & Newspaper Museum | Scripps College Press |
| American Philosophical Society | Massachusetts College of Art and Design | Signal-Return |
| Arizona, University of | Minneapolis College of Art & Design | Silver Buckle Press |
| Arizona State University | Mississippi, University of | Smith College |
| Arkansas-Fort Smith, University of | Minnesota Center for Book Arts | Smithsonian Institution Libraries |
| The Arm Letterpress | Mississippi State University | Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists |
| The Armory Center for the Arts | Montserrat College of Art | South Street Seaport Museum |
| Art Academy of Cincinnati | Morgan Conservatory of Paper | Southeast Missouri State University |
| Auburn University | Mount Allison University | Southern Illinois University—Carbondale |
| Baltimore Print Studios | Museo Biblioteca La Casa del Libro | Southwest School of Art |
| Boston College | Museum of Printing | St. Bride Library |
| Bowling Green State University | Newberry Library | State Library of Victoria [Australia] |
| California, University of, Los Angeles | The Ohio State University | Stevenson University |
| California State University at Fullerton | Ohio University | Swarthmore College |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Old Dominion University | Tampa Book Arts Studio |
| The Center for Book Arts | Ontario College of Art and Design | Texas Woman's University |
| Charles Adams Studio Project | Oregon, University of | Thompson Rivers University |
| Cleveland Institute of Art | Oregon College of Art & Craft | Towson University |
| College for Creative Studies | Otis College of Art and Design | Transit Residency |
| Columbia College Book & Paper Center | Nebraska, University of | University of the Arts London |
| Columbia University | Nevada, University of | University for the Creative Arts, Farnham |
| Copper Country Community Arts Council | Notre Dame, University of | Wisconsin, University of |
| Dartmouth College | Penland School of Crafts | Vanderbilt University Library |
| East Carolina University | Praire Center of the Arts | Virginia Arts of the Book Center |
| em space | Pratt Institute | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| Emily Carr University | The Printing Museum, Houston | Washington County [Oregon] Cooperative Library |
| Evanston Print & Paper | Purdue University | Washington University |
| Florida State University | Rare Book School | Watkins College of Art |
| The Flynstitute | Reed College | Wells College |
| Genesee Center for the Arts & Education | Rice University | Whitman College |
| Hamilton Wood Type Museum | Richmond, University of | WMU Frostic School of Art |
| Hatch Show Print | Ringling College of Art & Design | Western New York Book Arts Center |
| Hartford, University of | Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop | Women's Studio Workshop |
| Iowa, University of | Rochester Institute of Technology | Yale University |
| James Madison University | Rollins College | Zygote Press |
| Kennesaw State University | Ryerson University | |
| Kimmel Harding Nelson Center | Salt & Cedar | |
| Kent State University | Salthouse Press | |
| Library of Congress | San Francisco Center for the Book |