Adventures in Lettepress is a 240pp hardback book containing more than 200 illustrations that showcase the work of 80 presses from around the world, including UK-based Bracket Press, Incline Press and Hi-Artz Press.

These range from elegant greetings cards, memorable business cards and beautifully-crafted products and packaging to edgy political posters and uniquely-crafted books and marketing materials.

Mise, who describes himself as "a failed art student", has been a letterpress printer since 2000 and his passion for the medium and the community that it has fostered is clear in his introduction as his enthusiasm for inherent artistic potential of the presses themselves.

"For five hundred years letterpress was the only easy option for reproduction of literature, news, pamphlets, and the day-to-day needs of commerce and industry," writes Mise. "But with the innovations of the 20th century came a revolution in printing, faster and cheaper, streamlining and modernising, and for a time tons of antique cast iron presses were hauled to the scrap yard, left to rust in barns, collecting decades of dust in a hobbyist's basement.

"As a revitalised interest in letterpress gains momentum, new artists scurry to salvage what is left of this nearly forgotten era. With no urgency to print the daily commercial needs of the world at large, we are left to ponder new possibilities and unique application...using these presses in ways that their creators had never intended or imagined."

Mise cites an obvioius example of this in Press NY's business card, which was run "an impractical sixteen times through a Heidelberg Windmill". The book is published by Laurence King Publishing and available next month, although many printers will no doubt be sad to note that it was printed in China.