About the Author

Esther K. Smith stitches artist books and makes collaborative limited editions at Purgatory Pie Press with hand-typographer Dikko Faust and other artists and writers. She has exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, London's Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Art, London's Tate, the Walker, and the Whitney Museum.

Reviews

"During the 1870s the Wm. H. Page Company published what are often considered the greatest type specimens ever printed. These lavish books were masterfully printed to showcase Page’s chromatic wood types and inks by Wade’s Inks. Esther K. Smith of Purgatory Pie Press, design historian Steven Heller, and artist Wayne White collaborated to produce a stunning facsimile of Page’s 1874 specimen, published by Rizzoli."
—Daily Type Specimen

"Surpringly psychadelic..."
—Alexandra Lange