Printing technology historian Bob Oldham and hand printing press collector and researcher Patrick Goossens have co-authored a new book about George Clymer’s Columbian hand press for the 200th anniversary of its invention. The book includes a biographical summary about George Clymer, some new information about the development of the Columbian, and reports on Bob’s world-wide census of surviving Columbian presses.
The book is to be typeset in Monotype Baskerville, and printed on Bob Oldham’s 1828 George Clymer Columbian press No. 375, using Zerkall mould-made paper in a limited edition (maximum of 100), with the planned release date of April 26, 2014, the 200th anniversary of the publication of Clymer’s announcement in the Philadelphia Aurora and General Advertiser of the availability of the Columbian.