The Stinehour Press along the Connecticut River in Lunenburg, Vermont, c. 1970
Items from the Bibliographical Checklist of the First Thirty Years
The Stinehour Press
A Bibliographical Checklist of the First Thirty Years
Selected and Compiled by David Farrell
Published by Meriden-Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont, 1988
No. 1
Thoreau MacDonald's Drawings for Dartmouth
With notes by Ray Nash
Designed and printed by Roderick D. Stinehour at the Graphic Arts Workshop,
Dartmouth College, May 1950
4.75 x 3.5 inches; sixteen pages including five tipped-in illustrations on Japanese tissue. Two hundred copies; untrimmed and handsewn by Elizabeth Stinehour into a light brown paper cover.
This is the first entry inThe Stinehour Press, A Bibliographical Checklist of the First Thirty Years, which describes 1,006 publications printed at The Stinehour Press from 1950 to 1979.
No. 47
The Stuyvesant Staircase, Ayrault House, Newport. Privately printed, 1956.
8 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches; 12 + [2] pages, illustrated with a collotype plate printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. 150 copies printed on untrimmed paper; handsewn into brown paper cover. Designed by Roderick Stinehour. The pattern paper used to wrap the cover was designed by Elizabeth Friedländer (1903 - 1984), who designed a number of patterned papers for the Cuwren Press in the late 1940’s.
No. 53
The Great Stone Face by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Foreward by Stearns Morse, drawings by John Nash. Printed and published by The Stinehour Press in 1957.
Designed by Roderick Stinehour, forty-six pages, 5.375 x 7.5 inches.
Available for purchase from the Shop
No. 80
A few Paragraphs on Printing inVermont... By Roland E. Robinson. Lunenburg, Vermont
The Stinehour Press, Christmas, 1958
Excerpt from Vermont: A Study of Independence (1897)
6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches; 8 pages. 200 copies printed for friends of the Press; handsewn into printed blue paper cover.
An early Christmas keepsake from the Stinehour Press. Envelope addressed by Rocky Stinehour.
No. 205
Grand
By Tennessee Williams. New York, New York, House of Books, Ltd., 1964
First Edition. 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 34 pages. 300 copies signed by the author; bound in yellow cloth over boards.
No. 251
Jan Van Krimpen: A Perspective on Type and Typography, by John Dreyfus.
Printed for Gallery 303, New York, 1965
9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches; 20 pages. 300 copies saddle wire stitched into white paper cover. First appeared in Printing and Graphic Arts, VII, 4 (1959); here printed for the Heritage of the Graphic Arts lecture series. Designed by Roderick Stinehour.
No. 320
The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse
Illustrated by Wenday Watson. Printed by The Stinehour Press in 1967 as a Christmas keepsake.
Designed by Edith McKeon, thirty-two pages, 4 x 6 inches.
No. 375
Philip Hofer as Author and Publisher
Introduction by Ray Nash. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard College Library
Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, 1968
10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 64+ [2] pages; illustrated; bibliography. 500 copies bound in printed gray paper and red quarter cloth over boards. Designed by Roderick Stinehour.
No. 570
The Visions of Mary
Edward Tyler with wood engravings by Gillian Tyler.
9 1/4 x 7 inches; 26 pages. 350 copies bound in beige paper over boards. Designed by Roderick Stinehour.
Lunenburg, Vermont; Privately printed, 1972.
A Bibliographical Checklist of the First Thirty Years is available for purchase in the Shop
Photographic Books Printed by the Stinehour Press
Coming Soon
We are slowly creating a new section of our archive of works connected to The Meriden Gravure Company and The Stinehour Press to focus on those books dedicated to photography. The two presses combined to undertake projects demonstrating the extraordinary possibilities of photographic books, books which would make significant contributions to the fields of both printing and photography. In their dedication to the finest reproduction of photography, they made use of the latest technologies and imaginatively innovated upon existing ones, and developed others to extend the range of both imaging and printing. Collaborating with some of the greatest technicians in the field, they became masters of duotone and tritone printing, as well as dry trap & full color printing, attracting the finest artists and designers of that period, beginning with the landmark publication of Alfred Stieglitz’s Georgia O’Keeffe in 1978, to the close of The Stinehour Press in 2008.
The posts will gradually appear, added in sections by year of publication.
Photography Books Printed by The Stinehour Press
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Rocky Stinehour: A Personal Portrait
Stephen Stinehour will be giving a talk on his father, Rocky Stinehour, at the
Typophiles Luncheon at The Grolier Club on the 24th of May, 2017.
Working alongside his father at the Meriden Gravure Company and then The Stinehour Press, his son Stephen was afforded the rich opportunity of sharing in his father's vision and creative endeavors. His talk entitled, A Personal Portrait, draws materials from his collection, and will offer an intimate reflection of the founder of The Stinehour Press, renowned Vermont printer and designer Roderick Stinehour, a being of far reaching talents and humanity.
