A Bookseller

Description:	Platke, Bernd W. (author) Morrison, Andrew (printer) Letterpress with Linoleum cut. Edition of 15.The broadside is printed on Somerset 250gsm grey in a whole host of typefaces – mostly Univers, Cheltenham, Gill Sans and Kabel.This broadside is from the collection of a historic suite of hand-printed literary broadsides which are a part of the Al-Mutannabi Street Starts Here broadside project at the Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts at the FAU Libraries. Although I felt sympathy, guilt and outrage at the bombing of innocent people in al-Mutanabbi Street - I could not assume that I could fully understand their situation nor did I want to be in any way condescending towards them by imposing my own feelings. Though we may offer our support and voice our protest, there remains a physical and cultural separation between us. I considered what to write for some time and eventually wrote a piece – in the style of oratorical declaration – that supports a trade I do understand – bookselling. Booksellers are not just tradesman, they are disseminators of ideas, their premises are centres for social and political exchange and an attack upon them is an attack upon culture itself.
Origin:	2009
Created By:	Platke, Bernd W.; Morrison, Andrew
Contributor(s):	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Publisher:	Two Wood Press (UK)
Source:	http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/1586
Collection:	Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright:	In Copyright
Subjects:	broadsides letterpress printing art

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