BookPresses

Plains, USA

Boss Dog Press

Hand-set letterpress fine-press editions, produced alongside Don Rash's fine bindery and the School for Formal Bookbinding.

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About the press

Boss Dog Press is the imprint of fine bookbinder Don Rash in Plains, Pennsylvania, USA. It produces hand-set letterpress fine-press editions printed on presses including a Washington and a Kelsey, working alongside Rash's fine bindery and his School for Formal Bookbinding. Its most ambitious title is a letterpress edition of Ernst Collin's Der Pressbengel (The Bone Folder), translated by Peter D. Verheyen.

Notable titles

  • Der Pressbengel / The Bone Folder (Ernst Collin, trans. Peter D. Verheyen)

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