Hatch Press. Robert Tilleard. Pythouse Farm Cottage, Tisbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP3 6NY, UK. Tel: +44 01747870801. Website: https://www.tilleard.co.uk/.
T. E. Lawrence. Crusader Castles. 2022. 90 pages. 215 x 157 mm. Garamond on St Cuthbert’s Mill A3 Bockingford inkjet watercolour paper, with 98 illustrations by Lawrence et al. Printed on an Epson XP-970. 50 copies quarter bound in buckram and paper by Robert Tilleard, spine label, price: £165. The text, maps, plans and photographs used are from the 1988 Clarendon Press edition edited by Denys Pringle. The introduction states: ‘The text of Crusader Castles published in this edition follows that of the Examiner’s Copy of the Thesis which was published in the first volume of the Golden Cockerel Press edition of 1936.’ It was prepared for the GCP by T. E.’s brother, A.W. from the 1910 typescript.
Corvus Works. Christopher Wakeling, 9 Ravenside Terrace, Blackhill, Consett, Durham DH8 0LB, UK. Tel: +447824397664. Website: http://www.corvusworks.co.uk.
Jack W. Stauffacher. Typographic Environments. 2023. 2d ed. 20 pages. 225 x 235 mm. Hunt Roman 18 and 24 point with Walbaum italic on Zerkall mould-made natural white rough finish, in black plus red-orange; a new drawing of Stauffacher by Sara Ogilvie, printed from a line block on Zerkall Ingres; black-and-white photograph of JWS with Hermann Zapf and Sumner Stone taken in 2001 by Dennis Letbetter on Platinum Etching. Printed on a Korrex Hannover test-press. 115 copies bound in-house at Corvus Works in Burnt Sienna Windsor Cloth spines with paper sides on boards, printed with half-tone portrait of JWS from a photograph taken by Ruth Teiser on 18 December 1968; title in Sistina capitals with Walbaum italic credit in dark brown and red-orange inks. Price: $95/£75. First edition printed as a keepsake in 2012/13 — 60 copies, half for Stauffacher, half for Corvus Works. Original text from a 1968 lecture by Stauffacher on the nature of the typographic book.
The Old School Press. Martyn Ould. Cliff Edge, Beer Hill, Seaton, Devon EX12 2QD, UK. Tel: +44129724689. Website: https://www.theoldschoolpress.com.
Martyn Ould. Only the printer knows. 2023. 24 pages. 345 x 245 mm. Dante on Batchelor handmade, probably from the making for the Bruce Rogers Lectern Bible. Printed on a Western 30 proof press. 62 copies: 40 copies quarter bound by Ludlow Bookbinders in boards with ‘Gold on plum’ splatter paper by Jemma Lewis for the boards, yellow cloth on the spine and paper label on front board, price: £90; 12 copies as above with a selection of fifty-nine letterpress ephemeral items from the Press in a clamshell archive box, together with a collection of ‘overs’ sheets from twenty-three past books, also in a clamshell archive box, the two boxes being held in a further clamshell archive box, all boxes bearing paper labels, price: £220 (out of print); 10 copies of the book as above with a selection of about forty past ephemeral items from the Press in a clamshell archive box, together with a collection of ‘overs’ sheets from about fifteen past books, also in a clamshell archive box, the two boxes being held in a further clamshell archive box, all boxes bearing paper labels, price: £150 (out of print). The book celebrates the thirty years that have passed since publication of our first book in 1992.
Richard Zauft Editions. Richard Zauft. 58 Pantry Rd., Sudbury, Massachusetts 01776, USA. Tel: +19785051613. Website: https://richardzaufteditions.com
Ingeborg Bachmann and Peter Filkins (trans.). For this Brief Time. 2022. 36 pages. 304.8 x 206.3 mm. Adrianna and Acumen Variable Concept on Kozo, with six ink-jet printed photographs by Richard Zauft. Printed on a Vandercook SP15. 20 copies bound by Daniel Kelm (recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Guild of Bookworkers) with acid-etched brown Hanji papers over boards with a side-sewn binding design with folded fore-edge pages allowing additional texts to be inserted between the translucent Kozo paper pages, in a case constructed by Richard Zauft from Stone Leaf™ slate, price: $2100. Peter Filkins (recipient of the Berlin Prize and Outstanding Translation Award) provided twelve translations and an essay about Bachmann titled “Time’s Shadow.” Ingeborg Bachmann (1926 – 1973) is considered one of the most important German-language writers of the mid-twentieth century and one of the most celebrated in post-war Germany.
Emily Martin Artists Books & Prints. Emily Martin. 251 Manchester Lane, Iowa City, IA 52245, USA. Tel: +13194305775. Website: https://emilymartin.com/
Emily Martin, William Shakespeare. Madness: Reading Hamlet in the Time of Covid-19 and Other Plagues. 2022. 18 pages. 11 x 8 x 1 in. Baskerville and handwriting on Arches Text Wove, with paper collaged and printed puppet inclusions, hand-drawn Covid-19 cells, blood droplets, and bullet holes by Emily Martin. The puppets are costumed in papers made by Andrea Peterson. Printed on a Vandercook SP-15. 40 copies: 25 copies with the puppet inclusions in accordion binding with non-adhesive slip-on covers of Mary Hark case paper, title label on the front cover, and enclosed in a cloth-covered clamshell box, price:$1,500; 15 copies on Mohawk superfine with printed puppets in accordion binding with non-adhesive slip-on covers of Tiziano paper, title label on the front cover, and enclosed in an archival corrugated card clamshell box, price: $300. Madness was created during the pandemic. Its appearance and content are very much shaped by my time in isolation. Initially, I copied out the play Hamlet by hand starting in March 2020 because I was too anxious to sit and read. I struggled to make sense of the project in a world gone crazy. The text is a crazy quilt arrangement of lines from Hamlet and my writing on repeating themes of fear, disease, Black Lives Matter, Asian hate crimes, the insurrection, so much death and isolation, and more.
The Heavy Duty Press. Michael Koppa. E10650 Old HWY 56, Liberty, WI 54664, USA. Tel: +16086065854. Website: https://heavydutypress.com.
8t Bags About the Natural World. 2022. 24 pages. 110 x 65 mm. Century Expanded on Kitakata, with two linoleum engravings and metal type sorts by Michael Koppa. Printed on a Vandercook SP 15. 88 copies in pamphlet stitch, tucked into Hahnemuhle Bugra cover and slipped into muslin tea bag, price: $120. From the copyright page: Eight quotations from eight tea bags amidst eighty bags set in eighty fonts, annotated for reference in the forthcoming title, “Just My Type: Specimens from The Type Store at Der Klubhaus.”
Lark Sparrow Press. Craig Jobson. 1726 Ashland Ave., Evanston, Illinois 60201-3546, USA. Tel: +18475339439. Website: https://www.larksparrowpress.com.
Lynn Sloan. Fortune Cookies. 2021/22. 72 pages. 30cm X 14cm. Handset 12/15 Plantin on 2,600 sheets of 11″ wide 12 ” high Stonehenge Cream 250 gsm, with spot art by Lynn McClain and 22 hand-tinted spot art and seven blind embossings for each book by Craig Jobson. Printed on Vandercook IV letterpress. 20 copies: 10 copies full bound with book boards and crimson book cloth, sewn on boards, by Craig Jobson and Karen Hamner, price: $800; 10 full bound deluxe copies with exposed-sewing-over-tapes and digitally engraved, airbrushed front and back bamboo covers by Jobson and Hanmer, price: $900. Fortune Cookies is a multi-colored, 72-page, illustrated, letterpress printed, handbound collection of seven flash fiction stories in a limited edition of 20. Each story begins with a Mandarin/English title and a drop cap. The writer has observed complexities of fictional women who reflect the experiences of real women. All 20 copies use five different methods for printing: letterpress, intaglio, hand stamping, computer-generated typography (the fortunes), and digital engraving (bamboo covers).
Hand & Eye Editions. Phil Abel. 12 Pinchin Street, Shadwell, London E1 1SA, UK. Tel: +442074889800. Website: http://www.handandeye.co.uk.
Ruth Boswell. A Far Away Country. 2022. 198 pages. 210 x 125 mm. Minion Pro on Mohawk Superfine 148 gsm, with 10 line drawings by Angela Barrett. Printed on a Heidelberg SB cylinder. 230 copies: 120 copies full bound by Ludlow Bookbinders in red book cloth with reproduction of Czech child’s identity card glued on front board, price: £145; 100 copies on Bockingford 160 gsm, full bound by Ludlow Bookbinders in red, white and blue leather, price: £350; 10 copies on Bockingford 160 gsm, full bound by Ludlow Bookbinders in red, white and blue leather, price: £950. The illustrations in Variant editions 1 and 2 have been hand-coloured by the artist. Variant 1 is housed in a slipcase, and Variant 2 is housed in a Solander box with an original drawing from the book.
Püterschein-Hartland. Bruce Kennett.106 Gilson Road, Hartland, VT 05048, USA. Tel: +18024363262. Website: https://brucekennett.com/
W.A. Dwiggins. Edited by Bruce Kennett. Athalinthia: Seven Stories. 2023. 256 pages. 191 x 146 mm. Caledonia on Finch Fine Ultra Smooth Soft White Text 80-lb for body, with Mohawk Superfine Smooth White Text 80-lb for endpapers, with illustrations by Dwiggins (20 multi-color pochoir/stencil prints, 2 multi-color letterpress prints, 57 line drawings and/or hand-lettering, 25 watercolor paintings, 1 multi-color woodblock print, 1 multi-color silkscreen, 17 b&w and color photographs). Printed on Komori Lithrone, offset lithography, by Penmor Lithographers, Lewiston, ME (all illustrations reproduced in CMYK using high-definition stochastic screens and UV inks). 572 copies: 500 copies bound by Superior, Braintree, MA, Smyth sewn, casebound with a full-color (CMYK) wraparound cover printed on Mohawk Superfine Smooth White Text 80-lb, with matte nylon overlamination, price: $75.00; 72 copies on Mohawk Superfine Eggshell White Text 80-lb. for body, with Mohawk Superfine Smooth White Text 80-lb. decorated with a reproduction from a Dwiggins pochoir print for front and back boards, spine with hand-lettering, type, and decorations stamped in gold leaf on red goatskin, hand-sewn and -bound by Gray Parrot, Warren, ME, price: $400 (out of print). Dwiggins wrote these stories from 1910–1925. They are being published almost 100 years later! (His illustrations are from 1910–1952.)
Rooksmoor Press. Katie Beard. The Nook, Rooksmoor, Woodchester, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK. Tel: +441452942139. Website: https://www.rooksmoorpress.co.uk.
George Behe. Letters from Titanic. 2022. 128 pages. 265 x 145mm. Monotype typesetting and hot metal casting in-house of Imprint and Gill Sans on 150gsm Bockingford, with 48 digital images of Titanic ephemera and portraits of the people who wrote the letters; rare deck-plan endpapers; a colour tip-in of an original postcard; a letterpress reproduction of a page of one of the letters; and a separate printed reproduction copy of the last menu produced on board. Printed in two colours on a Heidelberg Cylinder 18″ x 22.5″. 250 copies bound by Blissets of London in Colorado Jordan cloth, price: £300.
For this limited edition, George Behe, past vice president of the Titanic Historical Society, has selected 33 of the most moving and poignant letters to be sent by passengers from RMS Titanic, prior to and post her untimely sinking in the early hours of 15 April 1912. He provides the Introduction and fascinating mini-biographies of the letter writers featured. Foreword by Bob Richardson, Library Manager at St Bride, London.
