[Revolution] [Tryst Press]

[Declaration of Independence] A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States, in General Congress Assembled. . .

[Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1776 | Provo, UT: Tryst Press, 2026]. Broadside. Item #11110

Broadside. 19-1/2" x 15-1/2." A fine copy. A remarkable letterpress-printed replica of the first published edition of the Declaration of Independence, printed by Dunlap the night of July 4, 1776 into the morning of the 5th. Robert Buchert has gone above and beyond to make a stunning edition. Starting at the beginning, the papermaker and fine press printer created new papermaking deckles to match the size of the copy held by the Library of Congress and hand-wired the J Honig & Zoonen crown and post horn watermark. He used period-appropriate fiber to make the sheets by hand. Buchert mixed the ink using an 18th century formulation and having reproduced the type and nearly precise layout including the erratic spacing in the document, he printed this semiquincentennial edition. Buchert notes: "There is a clear imprint of the excitement of that night and the haste in which they had to produce this." He goes on, "The original is wonky, full of the urgency, immediacy and energy of people doing a dangerous thing. . . . I think I caught that." A painstaking endeavor to get the spacing of each letter as close to his high-resolution scan of the Library of Congress's copy--about 1,000 hours of labor on Buchert's part. But he's correct, he "caught that." The result is perhaps the best reproduction of the 1776 Dunlap printing yet created. A beautiful document containing the highest ideals of a budding nation here reproduced with great fidelity making an absolutely beautiful broadside.

Buchert's Tryst Press is represented in institutions across the United States and England including Library of Congress, Yale University, Brown University, University of California.

Price: $150.00