Albert, Ernest & the Titanic
By: Jamie Murphy
Publisher: Distillers Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Subjects: Printers; Biography; Artists' books; Titanic (Steamship)
Other titles: Albert, Ernest and the Titanic
Description: Albert, Ernest & the Titanic' tells the story of the Titanic's ill-fated on board printers, Abraham 'Albert' Mishellany and Ernest Corbin as they travel on the ship's doomed maiden voyage.
Notes: Issued in a slipcase.

"This book has been researched, designed, illustrated and printed letterpress by Jamie Murphy, on the centenary of the foundering of the R.M.S. Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean. The 40 illustrations have been cut by hand and printed from the original linoleum blosks. The main body of type was set by hand in 12 pt and 14 pt Garamond Roman & Italic and 18 pt Grotesque Light, the title page was set in 48 pt Grot no. 8. The Garamond was cast by Phil Abel and Nick Gill at Hand & Eye Letterpress, London, 2011. On loan from the National Print Museum, the Grotesques were cast by Stephenson Blake Ltd., Sheffield, in the early and mid 20th century. The type used for the coordinates is based on an 1870's wooden display face designed by William Hamilton Page. The Face appears on a Titanic advertisement for the never to be realised return leg from New York to Southhampton. The face has previously been digitally redrawn by Dan X. Solo and is available under the name Minnesota. These characters have been digitally illustrated by Jamie Murphy and printed from magnesium plates."--Colophon.

"The unique ink used to print the title page has been specially created from a piece of high quality coal recovered from the wreck of R.M.S. Titanic during the 1994 Titanic Research Recovery Expedition. The book has been printed on 225 gsm Zerkall mould made paper and the glue-less binding has been designed by Jamie Murphy and Tom Duffy. The book has been hand sewn and bound in book cloth at Duffy Bookbinders, The Five Lamps, Dublin 1. The book has been printed on an Adwest double crown flat bed cyclinder proofing press. The book has been carefully seen through the press by Sean Sills at Distilers Press, NCAD, Dublin 8. Printing finished in May, 2012. 36 copies of the book have been printed in total. An out of coomerce edition of six are numbered i to vi. A commerical edition of 30 books are numbered 1 to 30. The linocuts have been further printed in an edition of six seperate release, they numbered 1 to 6."--Colophon.

Introduction written and autographed by Colm Tóibín.

This is copy no. 8 of 36, with author signature.

"These illustrations have each been printed in an edition of six outside of the book. This box is one of just two made to contain a copy of all forty. The edition number of each box correlates to the edition number of the prints within. Inset in each box is one of the original linoleum blocks from which the illustrations were printed"--Label inside box.

"This collection of prints is no. 2 of 2"--Label inside box. Signed by the author.