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Looking Back over the twenty years of the life of the Press, I am grateful to have been able to realize a long-held dream. That dream was to combine a love of literature, my love of the graphic arts and the practice of the mechanical craft which integrates the first two to create beautiful books. It is a source of satisfaction, as I regretfully close the Press, that the more than thirty books I created with the assistance of many devoted volunteers are now on the shelves of major libraries world-wide and in the hands of collectors of fine books.
-Barnard Taylor
Fall 2002
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| Barnard Taylor was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. He grew up in Red Bank, New Jersey, wishing to follow in the footsteps of his uncle, H. Weston Taylor, illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan. Pursuing the dream of becoming an artist has taken Barnard on a circuitous path. After attending Monmouth Junior College, he completed his undergraduate studies at Lycoming college. Following three years of coursework at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he was awarded a Masters of Fine Arts degree at The Pennsylvania State University.
He then undertook design work for a Philadelphia publisher. Later, he was a news reporter for teh Grit Publishing Company, and served as Director of Public Relations at Juniata College. He retired as Manager of Public Relations at Geisinger Medical Center. Throughout his life, he has moved forward in his artistic endeavors. Barnard has designed publications for a number of institutions, and mounted a one-man traveling show of his abstract watercolors for display at universities and municipal libraries.
At an early stage in his career, he was introduced to John Anderson, of the highly regarded Pickering Press, who in turn introduced him to well-known woodcut engravers John DePol and Valenti Angelo. Always hoping to publish in the time-honored letterpress tradition, Barnard Taylor embarked on a thorough study of the craft of printing by hand. The Press of Appletree Alley is the realization of his dream.
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