Bonnefant Press. Hans van Eijk. Pastoor Pendersstraat 21, Banholt, Lb 6262 PB, NL. Tel: +31434571916 or +31611057971.
John Donne. The Five Satyres. 2025. 31 pages. 310 x 200 mm. Dante on Barcham Green handmade 1985. Printed on a Korrex Nürnberg proof press. 36 copies: 10 bound by Philipp Janssen (Boekbinderij Phoenix) in full vellum (natural or six colours); coloured head and tail bands; paper chemise. Price: €395. 15 copies variant edition bound in quarter vellum (natural or five colours) with ‘Rieselpaper’ sides; vellum-tipped corners; coloured head and tail bands; paper chemise. Price: €285. 11 copies in variant edition bound in full cloth (blue or green), coloured head and tail bands; paper chemise. Price: €175. Edited by the printer from the edition of 1633. For pictures of the bindings, see Bonnefantpress on Instagram.
Woodcraft Press. Owen Legg. “Woodcraft”, 152 Hadlow Road, Tonbridge, Kent TN91PB, UK. Tel: +441732 359206. Website: https://www.mythic-beasts.com/support/hosting/mail/webmail.
Owen Legg. EPHEMERA. 2024. 25 pages. 150 x 110 mm. Gill Sans Serif 12pt on Azure blue Eden 75gsm, with 50 linocuts most in black ink, about 20 with multiple colours. Printed on an Adana 8 X 5 & Cropper treadle press. 30 copies (10 for sale) paper bound using handmade paper from the Woodcraft Press with title printed on cover and spine, acetate cover and some with a simple card slip case. Price: £55 with card slip case, £45 without. This is an autobiographical account of the many small blocks made over 60 years of printing, blocks made for Christmas cards, group publications and competitions. The text puts them in publication order and why they were made.
Muttons & Nuts. Philip Treble. 14 Dene Road, Cottingham, East Yorkshire HU16 5PJ, UK. Tel: +447706146974. Website: https://www.muttonsandnuts.co.uk/.
Margery Williams. The Velveteen Rabbit. 2024. 32 pages. 212 x 138 mm. Monotype Bell on Somerset Book white 175gsm, with 11 original illustrations by Tim Oliver relief printed from photopolymer plates in 3 colours. Printed on a Vandercook SP-15. 50 copies bound by Treble in full cloth 3-piece Bradel case binding in letterpress printed Astral Stone book cloth; optional slip-case covered in letterpress printed Astral Truffle book cloth and lined with Peregrina Majestic Petal. Price: £180.
Valeria Brancaforte Prints. Valeria Brancaforte. C/ Jordà 10, 2-2, Barcelona, Catalunya 08034, Spain. Tel: +0034669710273. Website: https://www.valeriabrancaforte.com/.
Valeria Brancaforte. Opera dei Pupi. 2024. 10 pages. 250 x 350 mm. 15 linocuts by Brancaforte printed in 1, 2 or 3 colours and on 3 different types of paper. Printed on a Reig manual press. 12 copies full bound by Brancaforte: 3 on Somerset paper, 3 on Drap paper (handmade Catalan paper), and 6 on Magnani Incisione paper. Price: €600. The Opera dei Pupi is a puppet theatre that emerged in Sicily in the mid-1800s and was proclaimed an Intangible Heritage of Humanity. I wanted to realise this project driven by the desire to pay tribute to my roots and to the very rich Sicilian popular culture.
Hirundo Press. Caroline Saltzwedel. Woldsenweg 18, Hamburg 20249, Germany. Tel: +49 178 1701608. Website: https://hirundo.eu.
Caroline Saltzwedel. King Coal. 2023. Accordion fold. 18 pages. 330 x 186 mm. Futura, Baskerville on Richard de Bas, Siquieros (both handmade), with illustrations by Saltzwedel. Printed on proofing press, etching press. 10 copies bound by Caroline Saltzwedel in black cloth with a printed inlay on the front cover with label in a case with magnetic closure that opens flat. Price: £2000. King Coal is a book in concertina form showing a chronology of coalmining from antiquity to the present day. Significant dates in coal mining history appear in white on a thick black line, the coal seam, which continues on the back. Idioms in German and English deriving from coal mining culture are combined with songs from both countries. The work combines letterpress, etching and monoprint techniques.
The Reading Room Press. Miles Wigfield. Coneygar Lodge, Coneygar Road, Quenington, Cirencester, Glos GL7 5BZ, UK. Tel: +44 1285 750662. Website: https://www.thereadingroompress.com.
Miles Wigfield. Parliament of Owls. 24 pages. 180 x 155 mm. Caslon on Liber Charta, with 5 wood engravings by various illustrators printed from the original blocks used to illustrated Yarrell’s A History of British Birds (1843). Printed on Barrett & Cope Albion. 75 copies bound in quarter cloth (brown) with gold titling and paste papers essayed by Victoria Hall which had been inspired by the feathering of the owls themselves. Price: £60. A slight volume displaying 5 of the owls from the original wood engravings used to illustrate both Yarrell’s’ 1843 A History of British Birds and its successor, Saunders’ Manual of British Birds (2nd edition 1899). Also told is the remarkable tale of how these blocks – two from Bath and three from Norfolk – found their way to my pressroom.
Corvus Works. Christopher Wakeling, 9 Ravenside Terrace, Blackhill, Consett, Durham DH8 0LB, UK. Tel: +447824397664. Website: http://www.corvusworks.co.uk.
Stanley Morison, James Wardrop, A.S. Osley, and Sebastian Carter. Giovanbattista Palatino. 2023. 68 pages. 232 x 262 mm. Stempel Palatino on Somerset Book White 115gm with 4 plates and 14 letterpress plates on Zerkall Smooth White 145gm. Printed on Korrex test press and Schelter & Geisecke Phoenix IV parallel art platen. 95 copies: 85 quarter bound in terra cotta cloth, Zerkall Ingres printed paper sides over boards, printed spine label, binding by Wakeling: price £180; 10 quarter bound in tan leather with hand-made marble papers from Compton Marbling, full cloth slipcases, binding by Roger Grech: OOP.
The Blue Print Press. Janine Raedts. Via Mezzavilla 26a, Vittorio Veneto, Treviso 31029, Italy. Tel: +393200525289. Website: http://www.theblueprintpress.com.
Nicola Dal Falco. Inventori di lettere. 2023. 6 pages. 270 x 125 mm.Bodoni on Laurier mould-made, Canson mi-teint end papers and Cordenons paper for the wrapper. Printed on Fag proof press. 25 copies in pamphlet binding: €60. This pamphlet was started in 2022 to commemorate the ten-year anniversary of master printer Alessandro Zanella’s death. But it wasn’t until this year that it was finally completed because of the search for real Greek type necessary for the poem (a story in itself). Nicola Dal Falco is a well-known poet in Italy, and his poem “Inventori di lettere” combines Alessandro Zanella’s love for printing and Greek culture.
TOC Publishing. Birgit Schmitz. Potsdamer Str. 98a, c/o Galerie Erik Spiekermann, Berlin 10785, Germany. Tel: +491705882279. Website: https://www.toc.berlin.
Wolfram Eilenberger. Time of the Magicians. 2024. 368 pages. 215 x 130 mm. The Future & The Future Mono by Kris Sowersby FF Real by Erik Spiekermann on 90g MetaPaper Rough Air White-Warmwhite. Printed on Heidelberger Cylinder from 1954. 998 copies in sewn binding & finishing at Buchbinderei Müller, Leipzig, with Schabert Brillianta Yellow linen, endpapers of Schabert Cyan, jacket of Gmund Cotton Paper. Price: €138. A portrait of four remarkable philosophers: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ernst Cassirer, Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger. It revolves around the emergence of modern thought and follows four men who provided different answers to the challenges of their time and continue to play an immensely important role in intellectual history. “An intellectual history that largely succeeds in bringing philosophy to life.” The New York Times.
Two Ponds Press. Ken Shure. 218 Howe Hill Road, Camden, Maine 04843, USA. Tel: +16173350175. Website: https://www.twopondspress.com.
Joyce Tenneson and Claire Millikin. GOLD TREES. 2024. 44 pages. 11 x 9 in. Garamond on Rives BFK 280 gsm, with photography by Joyce Tenneson, 16 mounted images and an additional photo printed on aluminum and housed in the clamshell box. Printed on letterpress. 30 copies: 25 in quarterbound leather and Japanese gold metallic paper, bound by Amy Borezo/Shelter Bookworks. Price: $5000. Joyce Tenneson has bathed this series in gold, harkening back to sacred icons and alchemy. The letterpress ink color is gold as are elements of the binding. The book is quite literally luminous in subject and design in celebration of her Golden Jubilee. Claire Millikin’s words accompany the images.
