MC 57
About Typographeum/R.T. Risk:
R.T. (Terry) Risk, author and printer, began operating the Typographeum Press in Francestown, New Hampshire in 1974. He uses a 10 x 15 Chandler and Price treadle platen press.
About the collection:
Hand-set and printed letterpress books of literary interest, including poetry, short stories, biographies, and travel adventures in book, pamphlet and ephemera format, 1974 to 1992. Catalogues (1-22), Catalogues 23-37, Catalogues (38-85).
Note On Copyright:
The Typographeum Press holds copyright on this material.
Folder Listing:
I. Pamphlets
| f.1 | Risk, Terry. Three Private Presses. Illustrated by Christian Small. West Linton: The Cadmus Press. Copy number 16 of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. First book printed by Risk. 1974. |
| f.2 | The Art of the Book. Peterborough, N.H.: Sharon Arts Center, 1977. Written and hand-printed by R.T. Risk at the Typographeum Press, Francestown, N.H. Exhibit catalog. |
| f.3 | Leblanc on Lupin: An Author On His Character. Translated from the French by Henry H. Babcock. Introduction by Peter L. Stern. Hand-printed by R.T. Risk for Peter L. Stern. Copy 8 of 100 numbered copies signed by Babcock, Stern, and Risk. 1978. |
| f.4 | Golffing, Francis. Likenesses: Translations by Francis Golffing. Hand-set, printed letterpress, and bound by R.T. Risk. Copy 22 of 75 numbered copies signed by the author. 1979. |
| f.5 | Risk, R.T. Dr. Mardersteig, A Memory. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk. Copy 15 of 60 numbered copies signed by the author. 1980. |
| f.6 | Golffing, Francis. Women’s Movement. Francestown, N.H.: Privately Printed, 1980. “Fifty copies of these poems were hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk…for Francis Golffing.” Signed by the author. |
| f.7 | Golffing, Francis. Women’s Movement II. Francestown, N.H.: Privately Printed, 1981. “Fifty copies hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk.” Signed by the author. |
| f.8 | Golffing, Francis. The Malcontent. One of 35 copies hand printed by R.T. Risk. 1982. |
| f.9 | Spingarn, Lawrence P. The Belvedere. Illustrated by Richard C. Walsh. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk. One of 175 copies signed by the author and illustrator. 1982. |
| f.10 | Pound, Omar S. Saint Erkenwald. Revere, Pa.: Woolmer/Brotherson. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk at Francestown, N.H. One of 300 copies signed by the author. 1983. |
| f.11 | Risk, R.T. The Life and Death of Nicolaus Jenson. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk. One of 150 copies, 125 of which were distributed to the Society of Private Printers. 1983. |
| f.12 | Golffing, Francis. New Poems. Privately printed. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk. 1984. |
| f.13 | Campbell, Roy. “Mass At Dawn”: A Poem Set To Music By Christopher Connolly. One of 80 copies hand-set and printed letterpress. Signed by Christopher Connolly. 1984. |
| f.14 | Pound, Omar S. Siege: Lucknow 1857. Revere, Pa.: Woolmer/Brotherson, [1984]. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk. One of 210 copies signed by the author. 1984. |
| f.15 | Roberts, A.F. Poems. Privately printed. One of 75 copies hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk. 1984. |
| f.16 | Trakl, Georg. Seven Poems of Georg Trakl. Translated by Francis Golffing. Privately printed, June 1985. One of 60 copies hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk. 1985. |
| f.17 | Lasker-Schuler, Else. Five Poems. Translated by Francis Golffing. One of 50 copies printed and bound by R.T. Risk. April, 1986. |
| f.18 | Aldington, Richard. The Berkshire Kennett. Copy 5 of 15 copies printed in a variant binding by R.T. Risk, June 1986. Initialled RTR. |
| f.19 | Aldington, Richard. The Bershire Kennett. One of 60 copies printed by David Wilkinson, Reading, England, July 1986. |
| f.20 | Golffing, Francis. Poems, 1966-1967. Privately printed. One of “45 copies printed and bound by R.T. Risk and completed in August 1986 at Francestown.” |
| f.21 | Aldington, Richard. In Winter. Drawings by Sylvia Nicolas O’Neill. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T Risk during June 1987. One of 100 copies. Signed by the artist. |
II. Miscellaneous Items
| f.22 | Occasional List No. One from the Typographeum Bookshop, the Stone Cottage, Bennington Road, Francestown, N.H. 03043. Dec, 1976. |
| f.23 | Risk, R.T. On My Print Shop. Francestown, N.H.: Privately Printed, 1977. “About 100 copies hand-set and hand-printed …by Terry Risk for his friends this Christmas, 1977.” |
| f.24 | Publication announcement for R.T. Risk, It Is The Choice of the Gods, 1978. |
| f.25 | “Many a Time…” Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles. Michaelmas Term, 1978. Printed by R.T. Risk at the Typographeum Press, Francestown, N.H. Program. |
| f.26 | Dekker, Thomas. A Cradle Song. One of 100 copies printed letterpress by R.T. Risk at the Typographeum Press, Francestown, N.H., 1978. |
| f.27 | Aldus Manitius. “I have resolved to devote my life…” Printed letter-press by Terry Risk for his friends this December 1978 with best wishes for Christmas and the New Year.” |
| f.28 | Thomas, Edward. The New House. Francestown, N.H., 1979. “Sixty copies hand-set by David Risk, and printed letter-press as a souvenir of the visit of: David Risk, Julie Risk…to Terry Risk….” |
| f.29 | “For someone as unmechanical…” “Sixty copies hand-set… and printed letter-press… by Terry Risk for his friends this December, 1979.” |
| f.30 | Greene, Robert. Content. “Fifty copies hand-set and printed letterpress by Terry Risk for his friends this Christmas 1980 with all best wishes for the season, DEO GRATIAS.” |
| f.31 | “Paper is made…” “Fifty copies of his own hand-made paper printed by Terry Risk for his friends with best wishes this Christmas, 1981.” |
| f.32 | “Seasons Greetings: Peace and Goodwill” contains verse from Langland, William. Book of Piers Plowman, c. 1362. “Fifty copies printed by Terry Risk for his friends this Christmas, 1982.” |
| f.33 | “Heap on more wood!…” Sir Walter Scott, Marmion. Sixty copies hand-set and printed letterpress by Terry Risk for his friends this Christmas 1983. |
| f.34 | Joyce, James. “To Live, To Err, To Fall,…” Broadside. Copy number 13 of 15 hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk for Alan W. Armstrong. 18 August, 1985. |
| f.35 | “Five centuries ago…” Printed by Terry Risk with fond good wishes for his friends this Christmas 1985. |
| f.36 | “Our familiar `roman’ type face … ” Printed by Terry Risk with good wishes to all my friends this Christmas, 1986. |
| f.37 | Golffing, Francis. The Walkers. Privately printed for the author, February 1987. Broadside. One of 25 copies. |
| f.38 | Golffing, Francis. Neobule’s Soliloquy (after Horace’s Odes III/12). Twenty copies of this poem have been printed for Barbara and Francis Golffing on their Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary by R.T. Risk. Francestown, New Hampshire, February 1992. |
Typographeum books in the UNH Library
Lakin, R.D. The MacDowell Poems. Handprinted by R.T. Risk. Copy 56 of 125 numbered copies signed by the author, 1977.
Risk, R.T. “It is the Choice of the Gods:” The Remarkable Life of Count Potockiof. Hand-set and printed by R.T. Risk. Copy 8 of 60 numbered copies signed by the author, 1978.
Aldington, Richard. The Dearest Friend: A Selection From The Letters of Richard Aldington to John Cournos. Introduction by R.T. Risk, 1978. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk. Copy 100 out of 100 numbered copies signed by the author, 1978.
Risk, R.T. Why Potocki? Hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk. Copy 8 of 100 numbered copies signed by the author, 1981.
Burford-Mason, Roger. Up At The Big House. Illustrations by Robin K. Boyd. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk. Copy 29 of 80 numbered copies signed by the author, 1981.
Kershaw, Alister. Adrian Lawlor: A Memoir. Frontispiece by Anthony Palliser. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk. Copy 37 of 85 numbered copies signed by the author, 1981.
Risk, R.T. Erhard Ratdolt, Master Printer. Hand-set, printed letterpress, and hand-bound by R.T. Risk. Copy 31 of 100 signed by the author, 1982.
Kershaw, Alister. The Beginning and the End: Collected Poems. Copy 31 of 100, signed by the author, and bound in cloth by the printer, 1983.
Salute to Roy Campbell. Edited and translated by Alister Kershaw. Revised and expanded translation of Hommage À Roy Campbell, 1958. Copy 103 of 200 copies bound in cloth by the printer, 1984.
Gribble, George Dunning. Scarecrows: A Dialogue. Hand-set, printed letterpress, and bound by R.T. Risk. Number 27 of 75 copies, 1985.
Lyle, Anna Campbell. Poetic Justice: A Memoir of My Father Roy Campbell. Printed and bound by R.T. Risk. One of 150 copies, 1986.
Mosely, Diana. The Writing of Rebecca West. One of 150 copies printed and bound by R.T. Risk, November 1986.
Older, Julia. A Little Wild: Poems and WoodcutsD. Hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk, who finished the work in December 1986. Number 53 of 125 copies, signed by the author.
Barlow, Adrian. Answers For My Murdered Self. One of 150 hand-set and printed letterpress by R.T. Risk, who finished the work in January 1987.
Mosley, Oswald. Two Germans of Genius. Edited and with an afterword by Diana Mosley. One of 125 copies printed and bound by R.T. Risk, September 1987.
Kershaw, Alister. An Introduction to Leon Daudet: with Selections From His Memoirs. With selections from his memoirs. Frontispiece portrait by Couneus. One of 200 copies printed and bound by R.T. Risk, February 1988.
White, Clair Nicolas. River Boy. Drawings by Robert White. One of 150 copies printed and bound by R.T. Risk. May 1988. Signed by the author.