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Shanty Bay, Canada

Shanty Bay Press

A private press devoted to livres d'artistes combining hand-set type, original illustration and hand binding.

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About the press

Shanty Bay Press is a Canadian private press producing livres d'artistes with hand-set type, original illustration and hand binding. Its website is active and presents its book art editions.

Notable titles

  • Circus: The Artist as Saltimbanque
  • Ovid's Metamorphoses
  • Venus Poems
  • Still Life
  • My Landscape

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