ARICO'; COHEN & Alessandro MOZZAMBANIPoesie dal tappeto volante

Hand-set at Ruggero Olivieri in Monotype Garamond with Garamond display; text in 24D italic passed through the stick. White Magnani moldmade wove paper printed dry on a Washington handpress in black and brown; screenprint editioned by Luigi Berardinelli; lithograph editioned in red by Bud Shark. Laid loose in a chemise made by Ennio Caloi; cloth over boards.. Edition signed by the Author

Printer-publisher and founder of the Plain Wrapper Press, Rummonds was born in Long Beach, California, in 1931. Rummonds attended Syracuse University in 1949, and the University of California-Berkeley in 1950. After that Rummonds worked as a set-designer in New York, an industrial designer in Japan for Fraser China, a book designer at Alfred Knopf, and as a commercial attaché at the U. S. Embassy in Quito, Ecuador. When Rummonds decided to enter a Trappist monastery in 1965 he started the Plain Wrapper Press, in order to print Eight Parting Poems, the press's first imprint, as a keepsake for friends. Later, when Rummonds was studying at a Roman Catholic seminary in preparation for entering the monastery, he regained his interest in printing and publishing illustrated and signed editions of previously published works. In 1970 Rummonds began publishing the texts of prominent writers, such as Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino and in 1971 he moved the Press to Verona, Italy. In 1982 Rummonds moved the Press to Alabama where he had been appointed to the faculty of the School of Library Sciences at the University of Alabama. In the summer of 1988 soon after printing Seven Aspects of Solitude, a sixteen page keepsake and the last publication to bear the imprint of the Plain Wrapper Press, Rummonds sold his printing equipment and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in screenwriting.

(from New York Public Library's website: https://archives.nypl.org/mss/2645)