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Records of the Taller Martín Pescador Press, 1971-ongoing.


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Collection Summary

Biographical Note

Scope and Content Note

Restrictions

Access Terms

Administrative Information

Container List

Series 1: Records of the Taller Martín Pescador Press, 1971-1998


Collection Summary

Repository: Main Library Special Collections
University of Arizona
PO Box 210055
Tucson, AZ 85721-0055
Phone: 520-621-6423
Fax: 520-621-9733
URL: http://www.library.arizona.edu/speccoll
Creator: Juan Pascoe.
Collection Name: Records of the Taller Martín Pescador Press.
Dates: 1971-ongoing.
Physical Description: Size of Collection
Abstract: Correspondence, printing production materials, chapbooks, invitations, posters, and other materials relating to, or produced by, handpress printer Juan Pascoe. Published monographs were pulled from the collection, catalogued and shelved separately.
Collection Number: MS 353

Biographical Note

Juan Pascoe, handpress printer, was born in Chicago in 1946. His father was a Mexican diplomat with the United Nations, and his mother an American. He received most of his education in the United States. After studying English at Whitman College (BA 1969), Pascoe spent a year as a printing apprentice to Harry Duncan at the Cummington Press in West Branch Iowa (1971-1972). He moved to Mexico in 1973 and first began printing under Imprenta Rasucache, or "Shabby Press," (1973-1975), before founding the Taller Martín Pescador (Kingfisher Workshop) in 1975.

In 1987, he produced the first book reflecting his historical interest in Mexican book arts (no. 112 on checklist). Pascoe has since become known for major studies of 16th and 17th century Mexican printers. He is located in Tacámbaro, near Mexico City.

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Scope and Content Note

The bulk of this collection is printing production materials of the handpress printer, Juan Pascoe. It includes his first efforts at West Branch, Iowa, 1971-1972; his initial press, Imprenta Rascuache, in Mexico, 1973-1975; and his Taller Martín Pescador in Mexico, 1975- . Materials range from calling cards and invitations to exhibition posters; from chapbooks of avant-garde poetry to folio-sized historical studies and bibliographies of Mexican printers of the 16th-18th centuries. Writers and illustrators whose work first became known through publication at the Taller Martín Pescador have since become established as major figures.

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Restrictions

Restrictions

None.

Copyright

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.

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Access Terms

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Administrative Information

Credit Line

Records of the Taller Martín Pescador Press. University of Arizona Library Special Collections.

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Container List

Series 1: Records of the Taller Martín Pescador Press, 1971-1998
Biographical information, Juan Pascoe,
West Branch, 1971-1972.
Imprente Resucache, 1973-1975.
Taller Martín Pescador, 1975-1977.
Taller Martín Pescador, 1978-1979.
Taller Martín Pescador, 1980-1982.
Taller Martín Pescador, 1982-1989.
Taller Martín Pescador, 1990.
Taller Martín Pescador, 1991-1994.
Taller Martín Pescador, 1995-1996.
Taller Martín Pescador, 1997.
Taller Martín Pescador, 1998.
Imprente Resucache,
Taller Martín Pescador,
Taller Martín Pescador,
Taller Martín Pescador,
Taller Martín Pescador,
Taller Martín Pescador,
Taller Martín Pescador,
Taller Martín Pescador,
Taller Martín Pescador,
Taller Martín Pescador,
Taller Martín Pescador,
Taller Martín Pescador,
Taller Martín Pescador,

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