Triona Pers is a small Dutch home-based printing office and publisher. This private press specializes in poetry and typography.
Triona Pers also designs and prints
exlibris,
businesscards and ephemera. Text is composed by setting metal type by hand. Woodtype, originally manufactured to print playbills, is also used, as well as old zinc blocks and specially designed linocuts. The forme is handprinted on a Korrex proofing press or the small Adana platen press, usually on coloured paper. Editions are usually limited to 40 - 175 copies. Triona Pers takes part in the Dutch small press organisation Drukwerk in de Marge.
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Uilliam Nuinseann | Triall รณ Dhealbhna Poem in Gaelic; English translation (A Farewell to Delvin): Patrick Pearse. With an explication in English by Mick van Rootseler. Two woodengravings by the Irish artist Tim Stampton. 16 pages. 100 copies. Price: Euro 12.50.
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W. B. Yeats | Cloths of Heaven Lovesong (the printer's favourite love poem), first published in 1899. 8 pages. 100 copies. Price: Euro 3.00.
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Dean Ramsay | A Dialogue in Vowels Type specimen book, printed from 24 sans serif woodtype faces. 16 pages. 70 copies. Price: Euro 13.50.
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| Noah's Ark Text taken from Genesis (in English). Specimenbook of Egyptian / French Clarendon / French Antique woodtype. 16 pages. 70 copies. Price: Euro 13.50.
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Tongue Twister | This typespecimen book contains one phrase (Around the rugged rock...) that is difficult to articulate when spoken quickly. The face shown is an italic font. Lepporello. 70 copies. 8 pages. Price: Euro 11,00.
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'Allo 'Allo | Arsis Type Specimen Booklet Ten quotes from the British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo that ran on television between 1984 and 1992. The series is situated in France during the Second World War under the German occupation. The booklet shows the 6 sizes of the Arsis typeface that are held at Triona Pers. It was printed on the occasion of Koppermaandag 2021. 16 pages. 75 exx. Price: Euro 4,50
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