Triona Pers

Triona Pers is a small Dutch home-based press and publisher. The 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 .

Publications in English Uilliam Nuinseann: Triall ó 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. Price: Euro 12.50. Oj dortn, dortn Yiddish lovesong; English translation. Illustrated; 4 pages. Price: Euro 9.00. Art Deco Letterproef Type specimen book, printed from three woodtype faces. Partially in English. 16 pages. Price: Euro 13.50. Dean Ramsay: A Dialogue in Vowels Type specimen book, printed from 24 sans serif woodtype faces. 16 pages. Price: Euro 13.50. Crazy Kings & Jovial Friars Eleven pangrams, printed from small woodtype faces. 16 pages. Price: Euro 13.00. Charles G. Caryll: Memorandums Small ABC-book. Specimens of an extended woodtype. 20 pages. Euro 13.50. Noah's Ark Text taken from Genesis (in English). Specimenbook of Egyptian / French Clarendon / French Antique woodtype. 16 pages. Price: Euro 13.50. Tongue Twister This typespecimen book contains one phrase that is difficult to articulate when spoken quickly. The face shown is an italic font. 8 pages. Price: Euro 11.00. W. B. Yeats: Cloths of Heaven One poem, first published in 1899. Printed on occasion of Koppermaandag 2010. 8 pages. 100 copies. Euro 3.--.

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