A while back Jim Rimmer asked if I would scan a few pages of his book, “Leaves from the Pie Tree”. It is a beautiful letterpress book is printed on fine paper and hand bound by Jim in limited edition. It is available from P22 and from Jim’s own foundry. The types are all Jims own hot metal cuts. I have posted a PDF of the pages I scanned so that you can see them at higher than screen resolution. There was a thread here on Typophile a while back which prompted this post.
One of the featured faces is used to set a story his father told him as a boy. The following is a note from Jim.
“Nephi Mediaeval was my attempt to make a type heavily reflective of the semi roman of Sweynheim and Pannartz, without making an out and out revival of it. I studied the characters of the original pretty thoroughly and then put them away before starting my own drawings. I did refer back to the originals a couple of times and cheated a little, making alterations where I had drifted too far away from the look of the S&P type.
I cut this type in one size only (18 point) since I believed at the time that this was close to the historic type. I named my version after my dad, John, Nephi Rimmer. It has had little use because of the restrictive nature of such an archaic design, but I was able to use it this year in my putting down in words, a story often told to me by my dad from his early memories of boyhood in Bolton, Lancashire.”
Jim Rimmer
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ChrisL
RimmerPie72.pdf
