Johnston, Alastair

Alastair Johnston moved to Berkeley, California, in the mid- 1970s and founded Poltroon Press with the artist Frances Butler. He is the author of SERENDIPITOUS BOOKS: A MEMOIR OF PETER B. HOWARD (Poltroon Press, 2014) and Alphabets to Order (British Library, 2000) and co-editor of William Loy's Nineteenth-century American Designers & Engravers of Type (Oak Knoll, 2009) as well as three bibliographies of San Francisco Bay Area small presses: Auerhahn, White Rabbit, and Zephyrus Image.