I know I've been filling up everyone's inboxes with reminders and calls for submissions for the Spring 2016 issue of RBM. Well, I'm not done yet--I have one more reminder and one very exciting announcement:
Special Feature for Print Subscribers:
Some of you may know that our friends at the Rochester Institute of Technology's (RIT) Cary Collection recently acquired the Kelmscott/Goudy hand press. That's right--THE Kelmscott/Goudy press. For those of you who aren't familiar with it, this is the same press that William Morris used in 1896 to print his famous "Works of Geoffrey Chaucer."
To quote the Cary Collection's curator, Steven Galbraith, "The Kelmscott Chaucer is considered to be among the most beautiful books ever produced and a major influence on the modern private press movement." And in honor of RBM's 30th anniversary, they have agreed to print an insert on that very same press for each print subscriber of the journal!
The insert is being designed by Jerry Kelly, an award-winning designer, calligrapher, and printer. I've seen a draft of the proposed design, and I can assure you that it's lovely.
There will be a very limited print run of these inserts: only 600 copies. If you're interested in receiving one, I encourage you to purchase a 2016 print subscription to
RBM as quickly as possible to guarantee that yours is within those 600 subscriptions.
Submissions need to be emailed to me at
[log in to unmask]. Several of you have begged for a little extra time, and I'm feeling so giddy about this Kelmscott Press news that I'm going to extend the deadline:
December 1, 2015 will be my final offer (
February 1, 2016 for social media tidbits). After that, the holidays will bog things down, and our peer reviewers need time to work their magic.
I'm so excited to see this special issue come together--and I hope you will be, too!