A Kat Ran checklist
Subtitle: limited editions designed, printed, and/or published between 1994 and mid-2012 : with an introduction, occasional comments, and an essay about fine printing
By: by Michael Russem
Edition: Deluxe leaf book edition
Publisher: Kat Ran Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: Bibliography; Kat Ran Press
Description: "A Kat Ran Checklist. Kat Ran Press was founded in 1994 by Katherine and Michael Russem with the goal of combining classical typography and contemporary art with the old ideals of fine printing. The Press had a pretty good run over the next eighteen years, printing everything from modest pamphlets to portfolios which have fetched as much as $1 million at auction. With the closing of the letterpress plant in Florence earlier in 2012, the staff of the Cambridge Offices decided to put together a 60-page illustrated checklist of the over eighty limited editions designed, printed, and/or published at Kat Ran. Included is everything from the student books of the Russems to the last books they printed for The Lone Oak Press and Sherwin Beach Press. All books are described with just the right amount of detail for the casual reader, and most descriptions are followed by additional commentary by the printer. This major checklist of the works by a minor press is a must-have for any collector, printer, student, or library concerned with fine printing between 1994 and the middle of 2012."--katranpress.com viewed on 4.24.2013.
Notes: "Fine printing's design problem (with extra comments)": p.51-55.

Edition of 350 copies: 300 Smyth-sewn paperbacks (regular edition) bound by The New Hampshire Bindery; 50 copies (deluxe edition) hand-bound in red cloth by Sarah Creighton; 10 hand-bound copies are accompanied by a leaf book (deluxe leaf book edition).

Most of the photographs are by Stephen Petegorsky.

Deluxe leaf book edition, housed together in a gray cloth covered clamshell box; in CMI case.