22 January 2009
Robert Bringhurst Wins American Printing History Association Award

Gaspereau Press is pleased to announce that author Robert Bringhurst has been named winner of this year’s American Printing History Association (APHA) award for distinguished achievement in the Individual category. The winners of the 2009 awards will be recognized at the Association’s annual meeting, to be held Saturday, January 24 at the New York Public Library in New York City.

The awards are intended to recognize "a distinguished contribution to the study, recording, preservation or dissemination of printing history, in any specific area or in general terms." Previous laureates of the Individual Award include Henry Morris (2008), printer and publisher of Bird & Bull Press; Ruari McLean (1993), typographic designer at Penguin; and John Dreyfus (1984), typographic advisor at Monotype. The association cited Bringhurst’s many publications, including his highly influential manual The Elements of Typographic Style (1992, now in its third edition), The Solid Form of Language (GP, 2004) and most recently, The Surface of Meaning: Books & Book Design in Canada (2008).

The winner of this year’s Institutional Award is Whittington Press, for its publication of the renowned journal Matrix: A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles, since 1981. The Press was started in 1971 by John and Rosalind Randle in Whittington, England.

BACKGROUND
The APHA promotes the study of printing history through publications, exhibitions, conferences and lectures, and through the development and maintenance of library and museum collections relevant to the preservation of printing history. The Association’s award for Individuals was established in 1976. A second award, for Institutional achievements, was established in 1985. The awards are given each January at the Association’s annual meeting in New York City.

Robert Bringhurst is a poet, typographer and linguist. Among his most recent publications is a pair of essay collections, The Tree of Meaning (GP, 2006) and Everywhere Being is Dancing (GP, 2007). A new Selected Poems will be published by Gaspereau Press this spring. Bringhurst lives on Quadra Island, off the British Columbia coast.

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Emily Leeson, Gaspereau Press
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