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.
Tudor Black Press. Hugh Macfarlane 9 Rue de Frontenay, Lion de Marnes, Marnes, Deux Sevres 79600, FR. Tel: +337909955.968. Website: https://www.tudorblackpress.co.uk.
Constance Maud. Lohengrin. 2022. 39 pages. 270 x 190 mm. Octavian on Zerkall mould made 145gsm off white paper, 6 wood engravings by Jenny Portlock. Printed on an Albion press. 50 copies: 45 copies bound at the Tudor Black Press in a quarter binding in Gitane blue leather, the boards with marbled papers by Payhembury, price: £245; 5 copies as above bound at the Tudor Black Press in a full binding in Gitane blue leather, blind tooled, with a set of engravings on Amalfi handmade paper housed in a Solander box, price: £550.00 (out of print). The wood engravings were designed and cut by Jenny Portlock, who is a member of the Society of Wood Engravers.
