San Francisco, USA · est. 1996

San Francisco Center for the Book

A nonprofit book-arts center offering letterpress, bookbinding and artists'-book workshops, exhibitions and residencies. Its Small Plates imprint issues 4-inch-square handmade letterpress artists' books in signed and numbered editions of 100 copies.


About the press

Founded in 1996 by Mary Austin and Kathleen Burch, the San Francisco Center for the Book is a nonprofit dedicated to the art and craft of letterpress printing, bookbinding and artists'-book making. Through its Small Plates imprint, begun in 2008, it provides Bay Area artists with studio support to create letterpress-printed artists' book editions of 100 signed and numbered copies.