Vandercook Presses: Maintenance, History and Resources
4th Edition by Paul Moxon

The essential Vandercook proof press repair manual, based on the author’s workshop, featuring over 400 drawings, photographs, and data tables. With notes on significant models and other brands, bibliography, and index. 7¼ × 10″, 230 pp, letterpress printed cover, and twin loop wire binding.

Comparison of editions 

EditionCoverForewordTotal ppRepair ppGraphicsTablesLogo ppGlossary ppTimeline ppBibliography ppIndex pp
FirstBlueFritz Klinke98 (i–xii, 1–86)331241113–2–
SecondGrayGerald Lange134 (i–xiv, 1–120)462132715–25
ThirdRedBasil Head160 (-xvi, 1–144)463344434–45
FourthBrownKatherine Victoria Taylor230 (i–xx, 1-210)884185834145

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Recommendations 
“The 4th edition is a monster in the best possible way. This book is heavy and chock full of info for Vandercook press users not obtainable elsewhere. The diagrams and drawings are clearly illustrated. It provides an understanding of the machine’s components, systems and tolerances which will aid tremendously in adjustment of these aging machines. It gives you the tools to make your Vandercook a better press and to make you a better printer.”
—Daniel Gardiner Morris, The Arm Letterpress
 
This edition, the fourth, is even more interesting, as were the previous three editions. All the knowledge and information that Paul has gathered over the years finds its way into this book. Slowly but steadily, this is becoming the Vandercook Encyclopedia!
—Thomas Gravemaker
 
“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

140 organizations that hold this title | WorldCat Record

James Madison UniversitySan Francisco State University
Alabama, University of Kala Art InstituteSchool of the Arts Institute of Chicago
Albion CollegeKennesaw State UniversityScripps College Press
American Philosophical SocietyKimmel Harding Nelson CenterSignal-Return
Appalachian State UniversityKent State UniversitySilver Buckle Press
Archetype PressLibrary of CongressSmith College
ArchivioTipograficoLongwood UniversitySmithsonian Institution Libraries
Arizona, University of Louisana State UniversitySociety of Northern Alberta Print-Artists
Arizona State UniversityMackenzie Printery & Newspaper MuseumSouth Street Seaport Museum
Arkansas-Fort Smith, University of Massachusetts College of Art and DesignSoutheast Missouri State University
Arkansas State University Michigan, University of Southern Illinois University—Carbondale
The Arm LetterpressMinneapolis College of Art & DesignSouthwest School of Art
The Armory Center for the ArtsMississippi, University ofSt. Bride Library
Art Academy of CincinnatiMinnesota Center for Book ArtsState Library of Victoria [Australia]
Artists Book HouseMississippi State UniversityStevenson University
Auburn UniversityMontserrat College of ArtSwarthmore College
Baltimore Print StudiosMorgan Conservatory of PaperTampa Book Arts Studio
Baylor UniversityMount Allison UniversityTexas Woman's University
Boston CollegeMuseo Biblioteca La Casa del LibroThompson Rivers University
Bowling Green State UniversityMuseum of Printing [Haverhill MA]Towson University
California, University of, Los AngelesNational Print Museum [Ireland]Transit Residency
California State University at FullertonNebraska, University of University of the Arts London
Carleton University Nevada, University ofUniversity of the Arts Philadelphia
Carnegie Mellon UniversityNewberry LibraryUniversity for the Creative Arts, Farnham
Case Western Reserve UniversityNotre Dame, University of Utah, University of
Centro Primo LeviThe Ohio State UniversityWisconsin, University of
Champaign-Urbana (CU) Community Fab LabOhio UniversityVanderbilt University Library
Center for Book ArtsOld Dominion UniversityVirginia Book Arts
Charles Adams Studio ProjectOntario College of Art and DesignVirginia Commonwealth University
Cleveland Institute of ArtOregon, University of Washington County [Oregon] Cooperative Library
College for Creative StudiesOregon College of Art & CraftWashington University
Colorado CollegeOtis College of Art and DesignWatkins College of Art
Columbia College Book & Paper CenterPenland School of CraftsWestern Carolina University
Columbia UniversityPraire Center of the ArtsWestern New York Book Arts Center
Copper Country Community Arts CouncilPratt InstituteWells College
Dartmouth CollegePress at Colorado CollegeWhitman College
East Carolina UniversityThe Printing Museum [Houston]WMU Frostic School of Art
em spacePurdue UniversityWomen's Studio Workshop
Emily Carr UniversityQuébec à Montréal, Université du Yale University
Evanston Print & PaperRare Book SchoolZygote Press
Evergreen State CollegeReed College
Florida State UniversityRice University
The FlynstituteRichmond, University of
Frederick Book Arts CenterRingling College of Art & Design
Genesee Center for the Arts & EducationRobert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
Hamilton Wood Type MuseumRochester Institute of Technology
Hatch Show PrintRollins College
Hartford, University of Ryerson University
Harvard UniversitySalt & Cedar
Illinois—Chicago, University of Salthouse Press
Iowa, University of San Francisco Center for the Book
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