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
| Edition | Cover | Foreword | Total pp | Repair pp | Graphics | Tables | Logo pp | Glossary pp | Timeline pp | Bibliography pp | Index pp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First | Blue | Fritz Klinke | 98 (i–xii, 1–86) | 33 | 124 | 11 | 1 | 3 | – | 2 | – |
| Second | Gray | Gerald Lange | 134 (i–xiv, 1–120) | 46 | 213 | 27 | 1 | 5 | – | 2 | 5 |
| Third | Red | Basil Head | 160 (-xvi, 1–144) | 46 | 334 | 44 | 3 | 4 | – | 4 | 5 |
| Fourth | Brown | Katherine Victoria Taylor | 230 (i–xx, 1-210) | 88 | 418 | 58 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
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| Brasil | 111.59 | |
| Canada | 111.64 | |
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| Germany | 105.00 | |
| Italy | 99.00 | |
| Netherlands | 96.57 | |
| Norway | 110.43 | |
| Switzerland | 110.26 |
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
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