We have been designing and printing books and ephemera since 1974. Beginning a career in Missoula, Montana Peter Koch started with one platen press. He since settled in the San Francisco Bay area and following the San Francisco literary tradition of fine press printing, has acquired an international reputation and several more presses. Our clients and collectors range from major international research libraries to bibliophilic organizations and private collectors and publishers. Between commissions, we design, print and publish limited editions of ancient Greek philosophers, the musings of maverick poets, and the images of world-renowned wood engravers and photographers. Editions Koch specializes in publishing limited edition livres d' artiste, broadsides, portfolios, and text transmission objects.

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Our latest book is: Small Elegies by W. S. Merwin.

During the summer of 2011, the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University presented The Art of the Book in California: Five Contemporary Presses. The show included some of the most significant works from Foolscap Press (Peggy Gotthold and Lawrence G. Van Velzer) of Santa Cruz; Moving Parts Press (Felicia Rice) of Santa Cruz; Ninja Press (Carolee Campbell) of Sherman Oaks; Peter Koch Printers (Peter Rutledge Koch) of Berkeley; and Turkey Press (Harry and Sandra Reese) of Isla Vista.

An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with essays by Koch and by the distinguished typographic historian, writer, and critic Robert Bringhurst.

Peter was recently interviewed by Home Ground Radio about the book Splendid on a Large Scale: The Writings of Hans Peter Gyllembourg Koch, Montana Territory, 1869-1874. Listen Here (mp3).