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The Old School Press. Martyn Ould. Cliff Edge, Beer Hill, Seaton EX12 2QD, UK. Tel: +447970166971. Website: https://www.theoldschoolpress.com.
Samuel Croxall (translator). Fables for a Despot. 2025. 32 pages. 255 x 155 mm. Hunt Roman on Barcham Green “Finale”. Printed on Western 30 proof press. 50 copies bound by Ludlow Bookbinders in quarter faux vellum, paste paper by Victoria Hall on the boards, title on front board in gold. Price: £95. Twelve of Aesop’s fables selected for their relevance to the current drift towards despotism and tyranny. Modestly inspired by Bruce Rogers’s design for the 1933 Aesop’s Fables for the Limited Editions Club, printed by Oxford University Press.
The Old School Press. Martyn Ould. Cliff Edge, Beer Hill, Seaton EX12 2QD, UK. Tel: +447970166971. Website: https://www.theoldschoolpress.com.
Scott Mandelbrote, Stephen Harris, and Jim Nottingham. Plates for a Herbal. 2025. 76 pages. 475 x 305 mm. Monotype Van Dijck on Rives BFK laid for main text, with Rives BFK 250gsm for copper engravings by Michael Burghers et al, of which 5 are in 76 copies and 12 in 8 copies. Printed on Western 30 proof press. 84 copies: 76 bound by Ludlow Bookbinders in quarter faux vellum with dark blue cloth on the boards, chemise in dark blue cloth with pocket at rear holding five engravings with interleaving sheets, and title in silver blocked onto front board of book. Price: £480. 8 copies as above but with 12 engravings. Price: NFS. New pulls from some of the original copper engraving plates used for botanical illustrations in Robert Morison’s Herbal of 1680 and 1699, with expert commentary on the book and the plates.
Nepenthe Press. Victoria Sharpe. Pax Cottage, 11 Main Street, Long Preston, North Yorkshire, England BD23 4ND, UK. Tel: +447986909935. Website: https://www.nepenthepress.co.uk.
H P Lovecraft. The Music of Erich Zann. 2025. 32 pages. 245 x 175 mm. Haarlemmer 14pt on Zerkall mould made paper for 150 copies and handmade Velke Losiny paper wit Nepenthe watermark for 26 copies, with 3 linocuts printed letterpress by Vladimir Zimakov. Printed on Monotype at Nomad Letterpress. 176 copies: 100 hand bound by Roger Grech in Mi-Teintes Indigo blue paper and Brillianta cloth in either Blau (Blue) or Frocshgrün (Green) with illustrated labels. Price: £140. 50 copies as above in handmade slipcase. Price: OOS. 26 copies bound by Roger Grech in quarter chieftain goat skin and a bespoke metallic marbled paper by Rachel Maiden, in handmade slipcase featuring a hand foiled motif of a Satyr and Viol. Price: OOS. Title page with vignette linocut and two full page Lino-cuts by Vladimir Zimakov are printed letterpress from the original blocks. Printed hot metal monotype using the Haarlemmer typeface 14pt which is unique to Nomad Letterpress by Pat Randle and Ellen Bills.
Corvus Works. Christopher Wakeling. 9 Ravenside Terrace, Blackhill, Consett, Durham DH8 0LB, UK. Tel: +447824397664. Website: https://corvusworks.co.uk.
Ovid and Christopher Marlowe. Translated by Christopher Marlowe: Certain of Ovid’s Elegies with an introduction and notes by Dr Adam Hansen. 2024. 48 pages. 335 x 260 mm. Palatino (Stempel) on Arches Vélin Blanc 160gm, with 6 relief prints in between 5 and 7 colours by Chun-Chao Chiu. Printed on a Korrex Hannover. 60 copies: 40 quarter bound in Dubletta red/blue cloth with hand-made “green and gold” marble paper sides by Freya Scott, spine label printed on Hahnemühle green, Slipcase made by Roger Grech in matching Dubletta cloth tops and bottoms with Hahnemühle paper sides. Price: £265. 12 copies quarter bound in leather with gold blocked spine by Roger Grech, hand-made “green and gold” marble paper sides by Freya Scott, full cloth slipcase in Dubletta red/blue cloth, and extra set of artists relief prints. Price: £425. 2 sets in sheets for binders. Price: #15. 6 copies hors de commerce.
Intima Press Editions. Mindy Belloff. 32 Union Square East, Suite 310, New York, NY 10003, USA. Tel: +19174124134. Website: https://IntimaPress.com.
Mindy Belloff. The Golden Hair of Medusa – A Contemporary Illumination. 2025. 108 pages. 368 x 273 mm. Adobe Garamond with additional typefaces on handmade cotton rag papers in white, silver grey, dark grey, and black, with over 100 original drawings by Belloff, printed letterpress, a selection of which are hand painted. Printed on a Vandercook Uni III A/B. 40 copies (8 to be specially bound): 32 hand sewn on linen tapes with cover in quarter leather calf skin and handmade white paper, housed inside a yellow-gold cloth clamshell box with gold titling on leather labels, sewn and bound by Celine Lombardi, ME, gilt edges in 23k gold, with spine design in gold on leather, gilded by Peter Geraty, MA. Price: POA. Text from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Gorgon’s Head” (1852). Additional text from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and writings of Sigmund Freud and Carl G. Jung. A companion book to A Golden Thread: The Minotaur, the reader is taken on a visually stunning adventure in this classic Greek tragedy. It is not only the journey of Perseus, as Hawthorne retells the story. It is also Medusa’s story, the forgotten character, banished to a secluded life and trapped in turmoil, only to be hunted and violated again. It is Medusa transformed, who now possesses the power of the gaze. The Golden Hair of Medusa received a Fine Press Book Association Judge’s Choice Award considered among the Best in Show during the Oxford Fine Press Fair, May 2025.
Abstract Orange. Lauren Emeritz. 1543 44th St NW, Washington, DC 20007, USA. Tel: +12023330300. Website: https://abstractorange.com/.
Lauren Emeritz. Pigeon. 2025. 16 pages. 18 x 13 in. Wood type on Mulberry paper. Printed on a Vandercook. 40 copies bound with large Mulberry paper (66 x 97 in), lithograph and letterpress printed, 3 colors, folds down to (18 x13 in), each enclosed in a painted wood cover with orange cord closure. Price: $500. Pigeon is about the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon caused by humans.
Plain Wrapper Press Redux. Mark Fischer. 1008 Clinton St., Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. Tel: +12672506000 Website: https://plainwrapperpress.com.
Frederic Tuten. Uncle Umberto’s Orchard. 2024. 38 pages. 330 x 230 mm. Walbaum on Papeterie St-Armand custom-ordered, 3 silk-screen prints in the special edition and 2 in the standard. Printed on a Vandercook 219. 80 copies bound by Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio: 60 full-bound in gray linen, with an original silkscreen print on the cover; enclosed in a slipcase covered in blue paper dry-embossed with pressmark, but with the edges covered in maroon-colored cloth, and label on the spine of the slipcase. Price: $700. 20 copies full-bound in gray linen, with an original silkscreen print on the cove; enclosed in a maroon-colored cloth-covered clamshell box, and label on the spine of the box; third print in blue folder inside the top of the box. Price: $1,100. A short story by four-time Pushcart Award-winner Frederic Tuten, with two multi-color screenprints developed by Gary Lichtenstein based on original paintings by Tuten. Colophon signed by the author/artist. Book design by Gabriel Rummonds. Calligraphy by Jerry Kelly. Printed in black and burgundy at Sandy Tilcock’s lone goose press in Bisbee, AZ.
Dry Inc. Richard Kegler. PO Box 288, Scottsville, NY 14546-0228, USA. Tel: +17169036875. Website: https://dry-inc.com/.
Shani Avni. Hebrew Monotype at the Bixler Press & Letterfoundry. 2025. 32 pages. 229 x 153 mm. Maiola on Mohawk Superfine, with 17 photographs and 3 tipped-in Letterpress Hebrew Type specimens. Printed on an HP Indigo / Vandercook Universal III. 200 copies pamphlet bound with hand stitching of letterpress printed on Mohawk Renewal Wheat 120lb cover. Price: $20. This chapbook was produced in 2024 to document the Hebrew Type Intensive workshop held at the Press and Letterfoundry of Michael and Winifred Bixler in July 2023. Produced with the support of The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the American Printing History Association (APHA), and the APHA Upstate New York Chapter, the book was co-designed by Shani Avni and Richard Kegler. All sales proceeds from this publication will be donated to Doctors without Borders.
Rising Wolf Press. Richard L. Hardesty. PO Box 190855, Hungry Horse, Montana 59919, USA. Tel: +14062120491. Website: https://frogkcdi.wixsite.com/rising-wolf-press.
Richard L. Hardesty. Small Presses in the Rocky Mountain West. 2025. 100 pages. 11 x 8 in. Golden Cockerel on coated white 80lb, with 42 full color plates of book covers and title pages. Printed offset. 50 copies bound in full dark blue cloth with full color dust jacket. Price: $75. Open edition bound in paperback. Price: $40.
Mixolydian Editions. Richard Wagener. 900 Middlefield Drive, Petaluma, CA 94952, US. Tel: +18185990945. Website: https://www.richardwagener.com.
Robert Bringhurst. In the Beginning. 2025. 32 pages. 280 x 165 mm. Bembo on Twinrocker, with 4 color wood engravings by Richard Wagener. Printed on a Vandercook Universal 1. 60 copies: bound by John DeMerritt with custom handmade cover paper by Heather Peters and Fabriano Rosaspina paper for slipcase. Price: $600. Peters has given the cover paper a capillary chromatographic treatment so that every cover is different.
Awen Press. Helen Moss. 36 Bow Street, Oldham, Lancashire OL1 1SJ, UK. Tel: +441616271966. Website: https://www.helen-moss.com/.
Helen Moss. M A R Y. 2025. 26 pages. 370 x 265 mm. Bembo on Liber Charta, with 22 large engravings, most of which are two colours. Printed on an 1846 Albion press. 60 copies: 50 bound by Moss in light rose-coloured, vintage Bugra Butten paper with cover print, spine in dark red buckram cloth with spine label. Price: £400. 10 sets of loose sheets for hand binding. Price: £200. This large hardback book is the first release from the artist’s new imprint Awen Press. The book contains 22 acrylic engravings of women and plants, reflecting a deep interest and dependence on Mother Nature and the effect we have on her.
Christine McCauley. Christine McCauley. 135 Windsor Road, Forest Gate, London E7 0RA, UK. Tel: +447766750402. Website: https://christinemccauley.co.uk.
Christine McCauley. Stones of Stenness. 2024. Double-sided accordion,18 pages. 102 x 280mm (102 x 1224 extended). Perpetua 12pt handset on Liber Charta 170gsm and Canson Mi Teintes 160gsm, with an 8-page 3- block, 6-colour woodcut by McCauley on one side and a 6-page map of the location in grey from a polymer plate on other side. Printed on an FAG Swiss Proof 40 press. 28 copies bound by McCauley in hardback in grey book cloth, foil blocked front and back in silver and yellow. Price: £150. The Stones of Stenness are one of a group of monuments that make up the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney’ world heritage site. Perched on the edge of the Loch of Stenness the stones, dated 3100 – 2900 BC could be the earliest henge monument in the British Isles, predating both Stonehenge and the Egyptian Pyramids.