Scripps College Press ~ California

In 1986 Kitty Maryatt became the Director of the Scripps College Press and instituted a program of collaborative class books.
A limited edition book is produced each semester.
  2005
  2004
  2001
  1992
  1991

Unbuttoned
2005. Edition of 102
6.25 x 12.5" with 40 printed pages. Binding with Museum board attached to endpapers. Materials used include notions and novelties (brads, buttons, fabric, gringe, ribbon and thread). Printed by letterpress with pop-ups and a volvelle. Images carved from linoleum, some printed with rainbow rolls. Four-color images printed on an HP Indigo digital printer. More color with airbrush and pochoir. Printed on Mohawk Superfine 80 lb. cover, smooth, softwhite.

The latest work from Scripps College students under the tutelage of Kitty Maryatt. This semester's project dealt with various physical and emotional attributes of a major character were created by the group. Individual stories were written about her, with no pre-conceived sequence. The character's personality evolved as the stories played off each other and as they were arranged, revised, and rearranged. Ultimately the narrative coalesced and was accentuated with playful pop-ups and color to enliven the pages.
$175

Cut & Dried
By Dustin Gramstad; Jada Lindblom; Andrew Extein; Jessica Meyers; Ruben Arenas; Dieu Ha; and, Jane Repass under the direction of Kitty Maryatt.
2005. Edition of 100.
6 x 16.75" in avocado rind-colored cloth over boards. Printed on Frankfurt creme paper. Photographs by Andrew Extein, Dustin Gramstad, Jada Lindblom, and Kitty Maryatt were printed on an HP Indigo digital printer. Drawings printed from magnesium relief etchings. Woodcuts are carved from birch plywood blocks.

A collaborative student work from Scripps College press under the direction of Kitty Maryatt.
$200

From the colophon:
              Challenging our points of views,
we gained new perspective on the subject of nourishment.
              What happens when one is hungry or overeats?
What is the most savory, or the smelliest food?
              We chopped, sliced, peeled, carved.
We found inspiration in Wallace Stevens'
              "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
We learned the niceties of woodcutting
              from our Goudy lecturer, Margaret Prentice.
We documented the whole process in many different media,
              and of course, we tasted.

Beorum II: Fragmentary Evidence
2004. Edition of 93
6 x 16" Nideggen and Frankfurt papers used. Scripps College Old Style was used for the front and back matter and for speculations, transliterations and translations. Students chose their own typeface to express their risk-based stories. Binding reflects the printing known as the black art with red linen spine. Housed in plexi case.

From the colophon: This is an artists' book version of a leaf book. We decided to reproduce Denison Library's Gutenberg leaf to more clearly understand the risks that Gutenberg took in his work of the books. The font-set of 246 different characters was cast by Dale Guild Typefoundry. About 5500 pieces of type were thoughtfully placed into five type cases with labels, and 84 lines were hand set and carefully matched to the original leaf. This fragment became our touchstone for writing stories about risk."
$250 (last two copies)

On the Impact of Expectations
In the course of overseeing the production of thirty books in fifteen years of teaching typography at Scripps, Professor Kitty Maryatt has "observed that students often write overly predictable first rough drafts. As a result, the specific focus of this book is unpredictability or surprise." The resulting artist book is evidence of an experiment conducted by six students under her guidance. Their working hypothesis was that expectations can be undermined. The stories, written for the edition, challenge reader expectations in both their content and their form. Varied page configurations serve to reveal the structure of each story. Six bound and unbound booklets include sewn, accordion, dos-à-dos, and puzzle piece constructions. Each 5 x 5-inch booklet is slipped neatly into specially designed "file folders" made from Rives Heavyweight paper (tan) and painted with pearlescent paint. The names of the authors/book artists are neatly arranged in plastic tabs at the top like files. Lifting the cover off the acrylic box and seeing the array of names, one may recall a recipe box, but that is only a trick of expectation. Unpredictable stories feature a character that diligently avoids the rain, a mathematical bisexual, a puzzle in a pouch, and the dark and light sides of charm. Letterpress from various typefaces. Illustrated with linoleum blocks, pochoir, and polymer plates. Signed edition of 70. (Pearlescent box is 6 x 6.25 x 2.5 inches.) 2001.
$160

Dorothy Drake and the Scripps College Press
Denison Librarian Judy Harvey Sahak was asked to lecture at the 50th Birthday Party of the Scripps College Press about the beginnings of the Scripps College Press in 1941. The Scripps students in the typography class acted as editors, typesetters and printers. They handset her speech in Scripps College Old Style and printed it in an edition of 95 copies on Frankfurt creme paper. The size is 6.5" x 9.5". There are 35 printed pages. The case binding features a patterned Japanese cloth and is housed in a two-color slipcase. There is a frontispiece by Bertha Goudy, letters from Frederic Goudy to Dorothy Drake, and drawings of the Scripps College Old Style type. This book has the first showing of the Scripps Italic type designed by Goudy in 1945-6. Hardcover. Fine.
$175

Example of the Arts
By Richard Barnes, John Hollander, Richard Howard, Donald Justice, Robert Mezey, Rosanna Warren
1991. Edition of 85.
7.5 x 9.5", 41 printed pages. Printed on nine colors of acid free Passport text. Bound in a spine-laced paper wrapper.

Six poets were invited by the Scripps College Humanities Institute to give poetry readings over the period of a year. Some of the poems were ekphrastic, which means that the poem was inspired by a work of art. We asked each of the poets to allow us to print an ekphrastic poem. The students worked in teams to produce a book of these poems with either the original image that inspired the poem or new imagery. Both the Fall 1990 and the Spring 1991 typography students produced this book. It was signed by the 21 people involved in the making of the book, including the poets: Richard Barnes, John Hollander, Richard Howard, Donald Justice, Robert Mezey, and Rosanna Warren.
$65 (Last Copy in the edition)

Scripps College Press Out of Print Titles:
•[Square]²
•Calculate Her
•Instant Coffee
•Limited Edition
•Le Chavellier Tondal
•Objects are Closer
•Overflow
•Speaking in Tongues
•Sweet & Sour