Officina Borogovi. Hans van Eijk. Pastoor Pendersstraat 21, Banholt, – 6262 PB, The Netherlands. Tel: +31611057971. Email: bonnefantpress@gmail.com.
Soame Jenyns. The American Coachman. 2025. 9 pages. 225 x 155 mm. Neue Hammer Unziale on J. Barcham Green (white, undated). Printed on Korrex Nürnberg proof press. 50 copies sewn into indigo card covers with orange Lokta paper wrappers, printed in black. Price: €30. An eighteenth-century poem in praise of the 47th president of the USA and his special trade tariffs. Printed on paper from the 1950s made for La Compagnie Typographique and A.A.M.Stols.
Abstract Orange. Lauren Emeritz. Washington, DC, USA. Tel: +12023330300. Email: Lauren@AbstractOrange.com. Website: https://abstractorange.com/
Abstract Orange / Lauren Emeritz. America. 2025. 13 pages. 184 x 127 mm. Flag book with red, white, and blue plike flag pages, text printed with wood type on cardboard and chipboard covers, and silver cellophane fly sheets / end papers. Words by Langston Hughes. Printed on Vandercook Universal No. 1. Edition of 20 copies. Price: $600.
Leslie Gerry Editions. Leslie Gerry. The Eight Gabled House, Lower Dowdeswell, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL54 4LX, UK. Tel: +44797682882. Email: leslie@lesliegerryeditions.com. Website: https://www.lesliegerryeditions.com.
Edwin Farish. Arizona. 2024. 110 pages. 420 x 320 mm. 17 point Stymie on 190 gsm Bockingford mould made and 148 gsm Zerkall with 26 digital paintings by Leslie Gerry. Printed on 12 colour Epson large format printer. 90 copies: 75 quarter-bound in leather and printed cloth laminated boards in a slipcase covered with a printed fabric. Price: £1600. 15 on 250 gsm Moulin du Gue and 190 gsm Saunders Waterford, bound in goatskin leather with a leather inlaid pattern inspired by an American Indian third phase chief blanket, housed in a solander box covered in fabric printed with a cactus illustration, and a cloth-covered portfolio of 8 signed prints laid in. Price: £4500. A two week trip around Arizona in spring 2023 inspired the creation of this book. Arizona is a vibrant tapestry of desert vistas, towering red rocks, deep canyons, and lush forests. The 26 paintings represent my first impressions of the overpowering and ancient beauty of the State. The text similarly refects first impressions, but of the early settlers, collected by Thomas Edwin Farish in his History of Arizona, published in 1914.
Factotum Pers. Geert de Koning. Slindewaterstraat 5, Zutphen, Gelderland 7203 GN, The Netherlands. Tel: +31642145186. Email: info@factotumpers.nl. Website: https://factotumpers.nl.
Felice Feliciano and Martin Majoor. Alphabetum Romanum. 2025. 66 pages. 206 x 145 mm. Scala on Zerkall Bütten and Awagami Shin Inbe. Printed on Korrex Hannover. 78 copies: 60 bound by Geert de Koning in quarter linen and Awagami Shin Inbe over boards, with spine label in hot foil (silver). €158. 18 (numbered in Roman numerals) as above but with a leather spine and slipcase. OOP.
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.
