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.
  2007 KØTØBÅ / Habitué
  2005 This Tends to Happen / Unbuttoned / Cut and Dried
  2001 On the Impact of Expectations
  1992 Dorothy Drake

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

This Tends to Happen
By Students of Scripps College Printing Class
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."
$195

Unbuttoned
By Students of Scripps College Printing Class
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 (Seven copies remaining in the edition)

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.

On the Impact of Expectations
By Students of Scripps College Printing Class
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

Dorothy Drake and the Scripps College Press
By Students of Scripps College Printing Class
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.
$175

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