`Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.'
    -- Thomas Moore, 1779-1852, Irish musician and songwriter

The Devil's Artisan is edited by Don McLeod. Typeset by Elke Inkster, copy-edited by Doris Cowan and printed by Tim Inkster on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of The Porcupine's Quill in the Village of Erin, Ontario.

Number 60, Spring / Summer 2007

TM (Thoreau MacDonald)
Seth

Thoreau's
Own Walden
Randall Speller

More Dingbats, Ornaments
and Fanciful Initials
Tim Inkster

A Rogue's Gallery
of the Canadian Book
and Printing Arts
featuring George A Walker

Includes a letterpress
keepsake of an engraving
by George Walker
printed by Nicholas Kennedy
at Trip Print Press
in Toronto

Number 59, Fall / Winter 2006

Laurentian:
A Typographer's Account
Andrew Steeves

An Interview
with Rod McDonald
Andrew Steeves

What I Know
about Women: Publishing
with Pas de chance
Derek McCormack

A Preliminary Checklist
of Pas de chance,
1990--2005
Don McLeod

In Praise of the Newly Retired:
Caryl Peters and Frog Hollow Press
Dan Wells

A Checklist:
Frog Hollow Press,
2001--06
Dan Wells

More Dingbats, Ornaments
and Fanciful Initials
Tim Inkster

A Rogue's Gallery
of the Canadian Book
and Printing Arts
featuring Jan and Crispin Elsted

Includes a letterpress
keepsake of a design
by Ian Phillips
printed by Stan Bevington
at Coach House Press
in Toronto

Number 58, Spring / Summer 2006

Rear-view Mirror:
A Designer's Memories
of McClelland & Stewart, 1969-1981
David John Shaw

Stepping Up
with the Canadian Bookbinders
and Book Artists Guild (CBBAG)
Natalie Shahinian

The Old Filing Cabinet
Jim Westergard

More Dingbats, Ornaments
and Fanciful Initials
by Tim Inkster

A Rogue's Gallery
of the Canadian Book
and Printing Arts
featuring Fred and Margaret Lock

Includes a letterpress
keepsake of an engraving
by Jim Westergard
printed by Nicholas Kennedy
at Trip Print Press
in Toronto

Number 57, Fall / Winter 2005

Traditional Anarchy:
The Complaint Department
by Jack Illingworth

A Checklist of
the Complaint Department
2003--2005
by Nicholas Kennedy

Digital Influence
in Letterpress Printing
by Anik See

Commercial Nostalgia
and the Revival
of an Ancient Craft
by Jocelyne Bedard
and Hugo L Casanova

Panning for Lead ...
Striking Gold
by Jane Tilley Merks

More Dingbats, Ornaments
and Fanciful Initials
by Tim Inkster

A Rogue's Gallery
of the Canadian Book
and Printing Arts
featuring Stan Bevington

Includes a letterpress
keepsake of a design
by Nicholas Kennedy
printed at Trip Print Press
in Toronto

Number 56, Spring / Summer 2005

Frank Newfeld
and McClelland & Stewart's
Design for Poetry Series
by Randall Speller

Digitizing the
Canadian Printer & Publisher
by Anne Dondertman
and Marlene Van Ballegooie

In Memoriam, Richard Outram
by Wayne Clifford

Dingbats, Ornaments
and Fanciful Initials
by Tim Inkster

A Rogue's Gallery
of the Canadian Book and Printing Arts
featuring Will Rueter

Includes a letterpress
keepsake of a design by Frank Newfeld
printed by Don McLeod
on the Vandercook
at Coach House Printing,
Toronto

Number 55, Fall / Winter 2004

Touch, Community and Aesthetics:
Where Harold Kurschenska's
Designs Take Us
by Brian Donnelly

Harold Kurschenska's
Private Press Printing:
A Preliminary Checklist
by Don McLeod and Brian Donnelly

General Specialist, Special Generalist:
Laurie Lewis's Many Roles
at the University of Toronto Press
by Brian Donnelly

Revolutionary Ink:
Negotiating a Canadian Modern
in the Work of Peter Dorn
by Brian Donnelly

About the Art of the Book
in Canada (1971)
by Peter Dorn

Includes a wood engraving
printed letterpress
by Peter Bartl and Jane Merks
at pb+j press in Balfour, BC

Number 54, Spring / Summer 2004

THADDEUS HOLOWNIA
AND LOUIS BLAKE DUFF

A Brief History
of the Anchorage Press:
The First Twenty Years
by Andrew Steeves

Louis Blake Duff:
A Neglected Icon
in Canada's Print History
by Peter Saracino

The Making of
Emblemata Amatoria:
Amorous Verses
by Wesley W Bates

Dizzy and Out of Breath:
Running the Goat Books
and Broadsides
by Phil Hall

Includes a wood engraving
by Wesley W Bates
printed letterpress
by Juanita Wilkins

Number 53, Fall / Winter 2003

TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
OF WOOD ENGRAVING

Notes on the Tools
and Techniques
of Wood Engraving
by George A Walker

Bibliography

Suppliers, Resources
and Organizations

Includes a wood engraving
of Bill Poole at work
printed letterpress
by George A Walker

Number 52, Spring / Summer 2003

JIM RIMMER: CANADA'S
UNIQUE TYPE CRAFTSMAN

Jim Rimmer: Canada's
Unique Type Craftsman
by William Rueter

The Cutting of
Cartier in Metal
by Jim Rimmer

A Jim Rimmer Checklist
by Don McLeod

The Recent History of
a History: Some New Steps
towards Digitizing
Canadian Graphic Design
by Brian Donnelly

Report (Ink Paper
Lead, Board Leather
Thread: An Exhibition
of Hand-printed Books
and Fine Bindings ...)
by Judy Donnelly

Number 51, Fall / Winter 2002

ROUS, MANN, STEEVES
AND DUNFIELD

Quality Printing:
A History of Rous and Mann
Limited, 1909-1954
by Joyce Sowby and
Randall Speller

A Checklist: Rous and Mann
Publications, 1909-1969
by Joyce Sowby and
Randall Speller

A Note of Encouragement:
Gaspereau Press at Five
by Andrew Steeves

A Checklist of Gaspereau
Press, 1997-2002
by Andrew Steeves

Number 50, Spring / Summer 2002

A GATHERING OF FLOWERS
FROM SHAKESPEARE

Editorial
by Don McLeod

Reproductions of Twenty-Eight
Wood Engravings
by Gerard Brender à Brandis

with an Introduction
and Explanatory Notes
by F. David Hoeniger

Number 49, Fall / Winter 2001

Notes on the Mackenzie
Heritage Printery Museum
by Alison Judd

In Memoriam:
William (`Bill') Poole
by Michelle Walker

Perspectives on Open Studio
by Alysa-Beth Engel

Report on the History
of the Book in Canada Project
by Judy Donnelly

Review of Al Purdy's
`Home Country: Selected Poems'
by Katherine Govier

Number 48, Spring / Summer 2001

Editorial
by Don McLeod

A Brief Chronology of the Life
and Work of Carl Dair
by Evelyn Bayefsky and Don McLeod

Typecast for Thirty Years
by Carl Dair

Additional Notes
on Cartier and Cartier Book
by Rod McDonald

Cartier Book: A Personal Appreciation
by William Rueter

Disrupting Design: A Debate
with the Later Writings of Carl Dair
by Brian Donnelly

A Note on the Once
and Future Carl Dair Society
by Robert Stacey

Number 47, Fall / Winter 2000

Humble Servant of the Printed Word:
Antje Lingner
by Monica Biagioli, printmaker

My Aunt Lisl
by Ellen Simon

Book Reviews
by Jim Burant, Saunders Probert
and Robin Healey

Number 46, Spring / Summer 2000

Claire Pratt: Art and Adversity
by Robert C Brandeis, chief librarian
at Victoria University, Toronto

The Graphic Work of Claire Pratt
by Robert C Brandeis

The Art of Isabel Cleland Rowe
by Alysa-Beth Engel, artist, archivist
and print sales manager
at Open Studio, Toronto

Report: Pictorial Title Pages
and Frontispieces
by Margaret Lock, co-proprietor
of Locks' Press in Kingston, Ontario

Number 45, Fall / Winter 1999

Frank Newfeld and the Visual
Awakening of the Canadian Book
by Randall Speller, librarian
at The Art Gallery of Ontario

Number 44, Spring / Summer 1999

Editorial
by Alan Horne, author of
The Dictionary of 20th Century
British Book Illustration

A Brief History of Time
at The Gauntlet Press
by Richard Outram, author of
Mogul Recollected

A Painter Pressed
into the Service of Poetry
by Barbara Howard, co-proprietor
of The Gauntlet Press

A Checklist
of The Gauntlet Press, 1960-1995
by Don McLeod, editor of DA

Reports
by Judy Donnelly, Alysa-Beth Engel
and Randall Speller

Number 43, Fall / Winter 1998

Editorial
by Monica Biagioli, guest editor
of a Special Issue on Women and Printing

Seeing Women as They Are
by Virginia MacDonnell Eichhorn

A Canadian in New York:
Ellen Simon
by Diane Egerton

A Report
by Michelle Hogan-Walker

A Book Review
by Margaret Lock