Only on Saturday: The Wood Type Prints of Jack Stauffacher

First Edition, 2023. 240 pages.

Book measures 10 x 14 inches. The first comprehensive look at Jack Stauffacher’s striking typographic experiments, in which he used a box of worn, mismatched wood type to transform letters from legibility workhorses into expressive studies of surface, color, and form.

Created in his off-hours on the weekend and in part inspired by the modern artists of his day, Stauffacher’s exquisite prints demonstrate what wood type can do when released from its role in traditional communication and instead used to explore letters as pure form. Featuring 500 images (most of which have never appeared in a publication before) and essays by collaborators from the worlds of art and typography, Only on Saturday is the first trade book to document the work of one of the past century’s great typographers and printers―and offer the compelling backstory behind its creation. This book also contains writing on other aspects of Stauffacher’s printing and publishing practice, as well as archival images from The Greenwood Press and his work prior to, and alongside the wood type work. Highly recommended. 

Condition: New