Robert R. Reid, Printer (1927-2022)

Robert Reid – the person I have called Canada’s first true private press printer – died last week. HM’s second publication was a bibliography of the five books his press issued. For just my second project on a handpress it was far too ambitious, but that seems apropos for a book about Bob. There will certainly be tributes to Bob’s career in the coming months. I’m going to limit mine to simply sharing the following three pages from a brochure he produced (c. mid-1980s?). I think it’s a concise representation of his typographic tastes, and the way he expressed his many passions in life (golf being a big one) through print.