Incline Press. Graham Moss, 36 Bow Street, Oldham, Lancashire OL1 1SJ, UK. Tel: +441616271966, Website: https://www.inclinepress.com/
Peter S Smith. Near Thursbitch. 2023. 8 pages plus trifold single-sheet foldout. 180 x 130 mm. Fairbank and Baker on Zerkall 170 gsm, 1 wood engraving (black ink) by Smith. Printed on Autovic. 175 copies, trifold handsewn, handmade cover paper from Papeterie St. Armand, Montreal. Price: £36.
Peter S Smith RE, wood engraver, was drawn by the story of a curious memorial stone, and that stone is the subject of this booklet. Smith tells its story and shows his boxwood engraving of the stone, an oblique tale and an oblique engraving. It is shown as the centre of the trifold, the text from the two faces of the stone holding his engraving in their grip.
The story is set in Fairbank, issued in 1929; the cut lettering is represented by Russell Maret’s Baker type, issued in 2016.
Incline Press. Graham Moss, 36 Bow Street, Oldham, Lancashire OL1 1SJ, UK. Tel: +441616271966. Website: https://www.inclinepress.com/
Nancy Campbell. Songs of the small hours. 2023. 12 pages. 220 x 125 mm. Baskerville on Zerkall and handmade paper from Two Rivers Mill, Watchet, Somerset. Printed on Autovic. 160 copies: 80 on Zerkall, 80 on handmade paper, both editions in a non-adhesive binding sewn onto re-used Vellum strips and wrapped in blue Two Rivers handmade stiff wrapper paper. Price: £48.
Bonnefant Press. Hans van Eijk, Pastoor Pendersstraat 21, Banholt, (L) 6262 PB, Netherlands. Tel: +31 611057971.
Eleanor Hooker. Where Memory Lies. 2023. 46 pages. 260 x 175 mm. Bembo on handmade off-white Loshin, 5 portraits (inkjet) and various drawings (line-block) by Stephen Rhatigan. Printed on Korrex Nürnberg proof press. 55 copies: 42 in paper covers and dark green Richard de Bas handmade chiné paper wrappers by Philipp Janssen (Boekbinderij Phoenix), price: £95; 10 in quarter natural white vellum with dark green Richard de Bas handmade chiné paper boards, with paper chemise, price: £195; 3 in quarter dark green vellum with dark green Richard de Bas handmade chiné paper boards, with paper chemise, price: NFS.
A series of poems and short plays based on documents and official reports about five women who suffered violence, injustice and death during the Irish revolution in the early 1920s.
The Reading Room Press. Miles Wigfield. Coneygar Lodge, Quenington, Cirencester, Glos GL7 5BZ, UK. Tel: +447798877196. Website: https://www.thereadingroompress.com.
Lewis Carroll. The Hunting of the Snark. 2022. 72 pages. 270 x 203 mm. Koch-Antiqua on Zerkall, with wood engravings (eight and four vignettes) by Ian Corfe-Stephens. Printed on an Albion press. 63 copies. Casebound by Ludlow Bookbinders, purple quarter cloth with patterned paper derived from a photograph of a geological phenomenon ‘hornfels’, price: £150 (out of print).
Greenboathouse Press. Jason Dewinetz, Box 1551, Vernon, BC, V1T 8C2. Website: http://www.greenboathouse.com
Kevin McPherson Eckhoff. Circadia. Greenboathouse Press. September 2022. 48 pp. 280 x 160mm mm. Monotype Deepdene & Alternate Gothic (cast in-house at Greenboathouse Press) on Hahnemuhle Ingres with by Jason Dewinetz. Printed on a Vandercook 219. 65 copies. Awarded First Prize in the Limited Editions category of the Alcuin Society’s Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada. 60 + 5 hors commerce bound by the printer, sewn on tapes with double end-sheets and a stiff paper case, these papers all handmade by St Armand. Title printed on front and spine. Price: $400.00.
Peter and Donna Thomas. Peter Thomas. 260 15th Ave., Santa Cruz, CA 95062, USA. Tel: +18314751455. Website: https://members.cruzio.com/~peteranddonna.
Peter and Donna Thomas. Paper Samples/Our lives with paper: an autobiography told through handmade paper samples. 2022. 105 pages and 46 cotton rag folders in a single wooden file box. Book: 11 x 8.5 in. Box: 10 x 14 x 5.375 in. Folders: 8.5 x 11 in. Neuland and Goudy Modern P22 for book via Kindle Direct Publishing, 60pt Neuland for folder numerals printed on a Vandercook Universal One. 6 copies, price: $2800. This is a collection of examples of handmade paper made by Peter and Donna Thomas between 1975 and 2018. The samples are organized chronologically and described in the full-color perfect-bound digitally-printed book. Both are housed in a custom wooden file box made from Baltic birch. Further details can be found on our website at http://www.baymoon.com/~peteranddonna/2-samples.htm.
Springtide Press. Jessica Spring. 818 N. Yakima, Tacoma, WA 98403, USA. Tel: +12536278629. Website: https://springtidepress.com.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (poem) and Alyce DeMarais (bisphenol contamination data). Tensile: A sublime love story. 2022. 10 pages. 203 x 152 mm, expands to 1524 mm. Garamont Italic (cast by Gregory Walters) on Rite-in-the-Rain, Plike, with10 illustrations by Jessica Spring, printed directly from single-use plastics including bread-bag ties, milk bottle caps, drinking straws and contact lens containers. Printed on a Vandercook Universal 1. 35 copies in leporello structure with pop-up text panels and plastic covers in a plastic box, bound by Gabby Cooksey, price: $650. Tensile weaves together Shelley’s “Love’s Philosophy”, a 19th century poem of seduction, with current research on bisphenol contamination in our environment and bodies. Used to manufacture plastics and resins for food and drink packaging, bisphenol impacts the endocrine system, impairing development and reproductive health. Illustrations are created from a variety of single-use plastics to create sublime landscapes and explore the irony of our love affair with this monster of our own creation.
Angel Bomb. Todd Thyberg. 1500 Jackson St. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413, USA. Tel: +16127701153. Website: https://www.angelbomb.com/
John W. Campbell. Who Goes There? Angel Bomb. 2022. 60 pages. 277 x 212 mm. Ehrhardt Monotype on Classic Crest Bare White 100# Eggshell, with 19 digitally created pencil illustrations in 1-4 colors by Todd Thyberg. Printed on a Heidelberg Cylinder & Vandercook 219. 250 copies: 200 copies in quarter contrasting Wicker color cloth, blind emboss on cover of Japanese Blue Twine book cloth, bound at Midwest Editions in Minneapolis, MN, price: $150 (out of print); 50 copies in quarter bound in leather with blind emboss on cover, same book cloth as above, bound at Campbell-Logan Bindery in Blaine, MN, price: $700 (out of print). The deluxe edition comes with a triptych portfolio case for the book, bound in identical cloth and containing a hand-altered map of Antarctica on the inside as well as a folder of 5 letterpress prints of illustrations from the book. The portfolio closes with twine and contains a hand-sculpted and painted resin medallion on the front cover.
The Counter Press. Elizabeth Ellis and David Marshall. 3 Dower Cottages, Barrow Hill, Wick, South Glos. BS30 5RQ, UK. Tel: +447725913618. Website: https://www.thecounterpress.co.uk.
Elizabeth Ellis and David Marshall (eds), Paul Barnes, Simon Esterson, Astrid Stavro and Erik Spiekermann (conts). Extra Condensed No.3. 2022. 12 pages. 304 x 431mm. Monotype Caslon Series 128. Printed on Vandercook SP20. 165 copies: 150 copies on 90gsm Newsprint, folded, price: £18; 15 copies on 160gsm South Bank Smooth, hand-single-section sewn with white thread, price: £35. Extra Condensed No.3 has been a long time in the making, arriving 6 years after the last, but it returns bigger and bolder. This issue takes condensed typography as its theme and features exclusive articles by Erik Spiekermann, Astrid Stavro, Paul Barnes and Simon Esterson, each bringing their own view of what that means to them and their work. It’s a celebration of these humble grotesque letterforms, richly brought to life through a combination of delicate metal and expressive wood type.
Incline Press. Graham Moss. Incline Press, 36 Bow Street, Oldham OL1 1SJ, UK. Tel: +441616271966. Website: https://www.inclinepress.com/.
Robert Burns with introduction by Graham Moss. A Bonnie New Garland of Robert Burns Love Songs and Poems. 2022. 36 pages. 240 x 135 mm. Monotype Scotch roman on Wookey Hole Mill paper, with a four-colour linocut frontispiece illustration by Petra Wonham and 15 vignette tailpieces by Thomas Bewick. Printed on Autovic. Ca. 50 copies: Hand stitched and bound at Incline Press, hardback with a cloth spine and decorated paper over boards from Helen Morley of Wigtown Press, price: £63. Twenty of Burn’s poems and songs, with a four-page introduction by Graham Moss. This book was made with the help of illustrator Petra Wonham, who selected the 20 pieces in this collection and did the bulk of the typesetting. A detailed prospectus with a sample of the decorated paper and a page from the book is available on request.
