Title: The Bieler Press Collection, 1976-1990
Administrative/Biographical History
Founded in 1975 by Gerald Lange, The Bieler Press is a small printing and publishing firm that specialized in studio letterpress, typographic design, and the publication of finely-printed limited edition books and related matter. Lange has written extensively on typography and the book arts. From 1986 to 1993, Lange was Master Printer at the USC Fine Arts Press. Among the exhibitions of Bieler Press work are Catching the Light, Bookworks from Southern California, San Francisco Center for the Book; Printing Letterpress for Over a Quarter of a Century, Scripps College, 2012; California Printers in the Fine Press Tradition, 1975–2006, Stanford University, 2007; Ninety from the Nineties: A Decade of Printing, New York Public Library, 2003. Institutional collections of Bieler Press work can be found in The British Library, University of California (various), Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Minnesota, New York Public Library, Princeton University, Stanford University, Victoria and Albert Museum, Yale University, et al.
The Bieler Press Collection