Scripps College Press ~ California
(Kitty Maryatt, Director)

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.
  2011 Deluge
  2008 Choix de Vivre
  2007 KØTØBÅ / Habitué
  2005 Cut and Dried
  2001 On the Impact of Expectations

Choix de Vivre
By Typography and the Book Arts Class
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2008. Edition of 90.

9.5 x 9"; 72 pages. 12 pt. Letterpress printed with centaur type on Nideggen paper. Linoleum and reduction block images. Exposed spine binding. Deep purple textured cloth (suggesting clouds and birds?) over board.

Professor Kitty Maryatt, for the Introduction: "The process of producing a limited edition letterpress book involves extensive decision-making. What is the overarching idea of the book? Where do we get imagery? How does it relate to the text? What kind of techniques will we use? What is our budget? When is the publication party? These questions are addressed every semester at the Scripps College Press. Since such a plethora of choices is inherent to the book-making process, and indeed to everyday life, we thought that we might focus on the act of making a decision, explore possible consequences of those decisions and even evaluate decisions that are made for you. This led us to our title for this book about life's choices, a pun on joie de vivre."

Text and images by six students.
$160

Habitué
By Fall 2007 Class of Typography and the Book Arts
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2007. Edition of 100.

5 x 5" closed; 94 pages. Colophon: "The paths were constructed from five-ply vinyl glued to MDF boards, while reverse paths were carved from linoleum. Both were printed letterpress on Vandercook presses. Further imagery was carved into linoleum. Some blocks were overprinted while others were suicide blocks. The accordion-folded book is bound in a case with lime green cloth glued onto Davey board with recessed paths."

Produced by the Fall 2007 Class of Typography and the Book Arts led by Kitty Maryatt, Director of Scripps College Press. Each of the 10 students (Donielle Kaufman, Maia Ashkenazi-Cnaany, Paige Pauli, Sara Kendall, Samantha Morales, Mina Hoffman, Alexis Ding, Elizabeth Balch, Michele Murphy, and Yoshie Sakai) wrote a piece about a part of her life in which repetition, regularly repeated actions, held sway.
$160

KØTØBÅ NØ PÅRTY
By Typography and Book Arts Class
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2007. Edition of 101.

5.25 x 6.5". Printed letterpress. Images carved into linoleum or stenciled by pochoir. Printed onto Somerset Book paper. Each sheet French folded and organized into paper folders which slip into a case with an unusual accordion fold at the opening spine. The case utilizes Tyvek mounted to Somerset Book. Case blind embossed.

Kitty Maryatt: "This is the 42nd in the series of limited edition collaborative books made at the Scripps College Press since 1986....

"For the 65th Anniversary of the founding of the Scripps College Press, a day-long symposium investigating the origins of the book arts movement in the 20th century was presented in January of 2007.

"The theory that the poem 'Un Coup de dés,' published in 1896 by French symbolist poet Mallarmé, instigated much of the activity was imaginatively discussed by Betty Bright, Johanna Drucker, Judd Hubert,Clifton Meador and Marjorie Perloff.

"In order to investigate these theories further, students in the Typography and the Book Arts class were asked to consider zaum poetry as developed by Russian avant-garde artists such as Iliazd from 1913 onward. Zaum poetry has been described variously as performative music-language, untranslatable sound beyond signification, enhanced meaning or meaning turned inside out, Cubo-Futurist indeterminacy with symmetry and pattern, rhythm and harmony, color and sound.

"Students looked particularly at the book Poésie de Mots Inconnus published by Iliazd in 1968 for inspiration in language use, text/ image balance, typographical and book structure. Original texts were written by the students in eight languages.... The title, KØTØBÅ NØ PÅRTY, means word party in Japanese."
$200

Cut & Dried
By Dustin Gramstad; Jada Lindblom; Andrew Extein; Jessica Meyers; Ruben Arenas; Dieu Ha; and, Jane Repass under the direction of Kitty Maryatt.
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 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 (Last two copies)

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.

On the Impact of Expectations
By Students of Scripps College Printing Class
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2001. Edition of 70.

Housed in 6 x 6.25 x 2.5” pearlescent box. Letterpress from various typefaces. Illustrated with linoleum blocks, pochoir, and polymer plates. 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.

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.. 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.
$160 (Last Copy)

Scripps College Press Out of Print Titles:
•Beorum II: Fragmentary Evidence
•[Square]²
•Calculate Her
•Example of the Arts
•Instant Coffee
•Limited Edition
•Le Chavellier Tondal
•Nous Tissons
•Objects are Closer
•Overflow
•Speaking in Tongues
•Sweet & Sour
• Unbuttoned

ARCH
By Students of Scripps College under the direction of Professor Kitty Maryatt
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2010. Edition of 109.

15.75 x 4 x 2"; 64 unnumbered pages. Double sided accordion fold. Typefaces: Garamond, Ehrhardt, Fournier. Pop-ups and papercutting. Letterpress printed. In clear acrylic slipcase.

Kitty Maryatt, introduction: "On January 7, 2010, just days before class was to start, the Los Angeles Times published a fascinating article on contemporary women architects, highlighting a striking building by Jeannie Gang. Earlier this year, the brand new President of Scripps College chose the Genius of Women as her inaugural theme. What serendipity! This gave us the perfect inspiration for our artist book: the genius of women architects. After extensive research and class discussion, a mission statement for the book evolved: Architecture, like books, is a delicate balancing act between stability and motion, interior and exterior, aesthetic values and structural practicalities. Books, like buildings, are fundamentally inhabited spaces. They are incomplete without human interaction.

"The first portals were built of post and lintel construction. A curved arch is more difficult: the keystone is needed at the apex to lock the other pieces into position. Building a book is similarly difficult feat."

Post-Inspection aka the Colophon: "This book was built by ten women paper architects. Their tools were knives and bone folders, and four Vandercook printing presses. They blended three typefaces chosen for their affinity and distinctiveness: Garamond, Ehrhardt, and Fournier.

"I think with my hands."

Thus stated Maya Lin, noted architect, in her book, Boundaries. The students developed structural imagery using only paper by thinking with their hands.

"Heather paper from Europe was selected for its natural stone-like colors of oatmeal, sage, charcoal, and mahogany. It was exactly the right stiffness for cut-aways and pop-ups. The tops of the rising sections were hand-cut to suggest a natural landscape where built structures fit into their environment, which changes as you manipulate the book into different configurations. You move from the outside to the inside, as if through openings."
(SOLD)

Dorothy Drake and the Scripps College Press
By Students of Scripps College Printing Class
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 1992. Edition of 95.

6.5 x 9.5”; 35 printed pages. Handset in Scripps College Old Style. Printed on Frankfurt crème paper. Case binding features a patterned Japanese cloth. Housed in a two-color slipcase. Frontispiece by Bertha Goudy, letters from Frederic Goudy to Dorothy Drake, and drawings of the Scripps College Old Style type.

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 to commemorate the event. This book has the first showing of the Scripps Italic type designed by Goudy in 1945-6.
(SOLD)

This Tends to Happen
By Students of Scripps College Printing Class
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2005. Edition of 99.

5.5 x 10.75" in a hand-sewn double accordian-fold binding. Printed from hand-carved linoleum blocks and magnesium relief engravings. Printed on Frankfurt Cream, Frankfurt White, Nideggen, and multi-colored Thai paper. Font: Twelve point Centaur.

Kitty Maryatt: "Scripps First Year students are required to read William Gibson's science fiction novel "Pattern Recognition" as a preparation to discuss postmodernism. Gibson asserts that everything is pattern recognition. In this vein, students in the Typography and the Book Arts class decided how they would define patterns. They wrote texts with the idea of presenting text as image, inspired by Iliazd, and image as readable text. In the process, they gave meaning to their pattern making."
(SOLD)

To One's Taste
By Fall (2008) Typography Class
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2008. Edition of 109.

6.5 x 9.5"; 116 pages. Handset from a selection of five typefaces and printed on Vandercook press. Paper: Japanese Yatso. Linoleum block prints. Cloth bound reminiscent of a traveling journal with bone and ribbon closure.

Kitty Maryatt, Introduction: "The word spice conjures up a host of associations: fragrant, savory, pungent and aromatic. We think of favorite dishes spiced to our taste. One wants to research the fascinating 2000-year history of trade in silks and spices over the land-based Silk Road and the water-based Spice Route. How are the spices carried along these routes? What kind of people were the traders, and how hard were their lives when moving across deserts, snow-capped mountains and over difficult seas with basic navigation tools? The evocative aroma of a particular spice brings strong memories. This pot-pourri of thought and sensation was gathered together to create a tasty book by the now well-seasoned students at the Scripps College Press."
(SOLD)

Word
By Spring 2009 Typography Class
Claremont, California: Scripps College Press, 2009. Edition of 94.

6.5 x 9.75 x 1"; 154 pages. Letterpress on four Vandercook presses. Typeface: Gill Sans. Imagery from type cases. Exterior: copper-colored thread sewn over Tyvek reinforced tapes attached to the black Japanese bookcloth cover.

Colophon: "Imagery emerged directly from the type cases rather than from our usual linoleum blocks. The evocative leaf between sections was chosen for its translucency and colorful visual qualities. It was made in the Philippines from finely spun fibers."

Introduction: "Peter Mark Roget wrote his first list of synonyms in 1805 for himself as an aid to more lively writing & lecturing. After a lifetime as a biologist interested in classification systems, Roget expanded his rudimentary list starting in 1848. He attempted to organize all thought into classes: abstract relations, space, matter, intellect, volition, & affections. Roget's Thesaurus was finally published in 1852. His original strategy was for readers to search for useful words through related ideas within the classification system. Most people who use the thesaurus don't know about this aspect of its use, so we thought it would be a good touchstone to generate ideas for our texts. Our keen interest in visual typography led us to invite Ron King of Circle Press and artist Sam Winston from England to give a joint Frederic W. Goudy Lecture during the Spring semester. Their presentation and workshop inspired the students to pay attention to how type could reflect the way we speak."
(SOLD)