The Crystal Goblet
1990
Or Printing Should Be Invisible
An address before the British Typographers' Guild at St. Bride's Institute, London, 1932. Published in The Crystal Goblet, London (The Sylvan Press) 1955 (pp. 11-17) and again in The Monotype Recorder, 44 (Autumn 1970).
This Hebrew translation by Dr. Moshe Spitzer, to whom this edition is dedicated, is published for the Israel Bibliophile Society with the permission of The Monotype Corporation.
The book was hand-set in 12-point David type, with 16-point for the headings, on dampened Byronic Text paper, and hand-printed on a Vandercook SP-15 proofing press by Yehuda Miklaf. Cover paper by Natan Kaaren. Proofreading by Daniel J. Spitzer.
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Gregory Robison, Gideon Stern, Daniel J. Spitzer, and Ariel Wardi.
Forty-eight copies were printed. The copy photographed here, from the collection of Yehuda Miklaf, is copy number 1.
- Design: Yehuda Miklaf
- Texts: Beatrice Warde
- Translation: Dr. Moshe Spitzer
- Language editing: Daniel Shpitzer
- Copies: 48
- Type of binding: Design Binding
- Languages: Hebrew, English
- Printing: Shalom Yehuda Press
- Binding: Yehuda Miklaf
- Type of printing: letterpress printing
- Publication: Shalom Yehuda Press
- Place of publication: Jerusalem
- Supported by: Israel Bibliophiles
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
Yehuda Miklaf was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1942, and educated there and in New York. In 1968, he moved to Toronto and began working at the University of Toronto Library, where he stayed for almost ten years. During this time, he began to learn bookbinding with Emrys Evans at the Rare Book Library. Yehuda befriended two other notable binders in the Toronto area. One was Anton (Tony) Lucas, the binder at the Metropolitan Toronto Library, and Michael Wilcox, who was an independent binder. Miklaf has been working as a professional binder since 1977 with major book collectors, artists, private presses, galleries, and museums in Israel and around the world. He immigrated to Jerusalem in the fall of 1986 with his wife, Maurene Fritz. He is also a professional printer and has made a number of his own artist’s books in limited editions. His own press, based in Jerusalem, is titled Yehuda Shalom Press.
