Peter Koch, Printer

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 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 artist books, broadsides, portfolios, and text transmission objects.

News

Peter Koch on his career: an interview by Rafael Chacón, Director of the Montana Museum of Art and Culture.

Peter Koch was interviewed by Nigel Beale of The Biblio File.

Peter Koch's forty-five year retrospective was at the Grolier Club in 2019.

Toni Morrison, Five Poems, Silhouettes by Kara E. Walker

Five Poems by Toni Morrison with Silhouettes by Kara E. Walker.

The complete, three-volume Peter Koch Printer: A Descriptive Bibliography [1974–2016] is now available.

Our latest book is: Ur-Text Vol. II: Speculum Mundi.

We support The Codex Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to preserving and promoting the hand-made book as a work of art.

Peter was 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).

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