Scans from Jim Rimmer's Delightful Book
A while back Jim Rimmer asked if I would scan a few pages of his book, “Leaves from the Pie Tree”. It is a beautiful letterpress book is printed on fine paper and hand bound by Jim in limited edition. It is available from P22 and from Jim’s own foundry. The types are all Jims own hot metal cuts. I have posted a PDF of the pages I scanned so that you can see them at higher than screen resolution. There was a thread here on Typophile a while back which prompted this post.
One of the featured faces is used to set a story his father told him as a boy. The following is a note from Jim.
“Nephi Mediaeval was my attempt to make a type heavily reflective of the semi roman of Sweynheim and Pannartz, without making an out and out revival of it. I studied the characters of the original pretty thoroughly and then put them away before starting my own drawings. I did refer back to the originals a couple of times and cheated a little, making alterations where I had drifted too far away from the look of the S&P type.
I cut this type in one size only (18 point) since I believed at the time that this was close to the historic type. I named my version after my dad, John, Nephi Rimmer. It has had little use because of the restrictive nature of such an archaic design, but I was able to use it this year in my putting down in words, a story often told to me by my dad from his early memories of boyhood in Bolton, Lancashire.”
Jim Rimmer
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ChrisL
| Attachment | Size |
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| RimmerPie72.pdf | 550.15 KB |
18.Mar.2007 6.14pm
For some reason, the PDF won’t post :-(
ChrisL
18.Mar.2007 6.24pm
No luck posting it again. It is 13 MB so that might be why.
I have to post it on my site the. Here is the link:
http://www.dezcom.com/RimmerPieTree.pdf
ChrisL
18.Mar.2007 6.32pm
I could only get a low rez version to post on Typophile in the first post. If you want the hi rez version, use the link in the post above this one to the Dezcom site.
ChrisL
18.Mar.2007 9.14pm
Awesome. The last of his kind. Great work Jim.
18.Mar.2007 10.06pm
I can’t open the link on your site, Chris. Acrobat says the file is damaged and can’t be repaired.
19.Mar.2007 1.02am
Thanks for posting this!
19.Mar.2007 4.01am
Wow Chris. Lovely – thanks to you and Jim for sharing this with us.
19.Mar.2007 4.44am
Ah well, I could see the .pdf listed in your first post but not the one in your third post.
Beautiful work.
19.Mar.2007 5.01am
Sharon,
I just downloaded it from the link with no problem. What version of Acrobat are you using? Perhaps you need to u[grade to a more current reader? This one is saved as 6.0.
It is 30MB so you can zoom in on the detail. Perhaps you have a size restriction for download?
ChrisL
19.Mar.2007 5.02am
Ben,
Don’t thank me, it is all Jim’s work. All I did was scan and post.
ChrisL
19.Mar.2007 5.03am
Can anybody find the original post where Jim talked about this? I would like to link to it.
ChrisL
19.Mar.2007 5.22am
I forgot to mention that these scans were made from off sheets, not the book itself. The black page was a rice paper printed with metalic sulver ink. The scan does not show it at its best light.
The photo of the stone was tipped in the book but shows you Jim’s handiwork with a chisel as well.
ChrisL
19.Mar.2007 7.40am
Here are a few more images of Leaves from the Pie Tree. Jim has indicated that his edition is now sold out. We have a couple copies left of the P22 co-edition.
19.Mar.2007 7.57am
Thanks Richard!
BTW Do you plan to digitize Jim’s “Nephi” face?
ChrisL
19.Mar.2007 8.11am
Do you plan to digitize Jim’s “Nephi” face?
We are “in discussions” :^)
19.Mar.2007 11.07am
For what it is worth, my vote goes for doing it. It is a warm face that speaks with a tooled hand. It says craftsman and that is a good thing.
ChrisL