Incline Press

Incline Press. Graham Moss. 36 Bow Street Oldham, Lancashire OL1 1SJ, UK. Tel: +44166271966. Website: https://www.inclinepress.com/.

John Payne Collier and Henry Mayhew. Edited by Graham and Helen Moss. Punch & Judy. 2024. 52 pages. 260 x 160 mm. Scotch Roman (cast by Matt McKenzie at his Paekakariki Press, London) on Liber Charta by John Purcell Paper, with 16 multicoloured engravings by Helen Moss. Text printed on an Autovic and images on an Albion, Squintani Model No. 4 and a Victoria. 150 copies (of which 20 are available unbound): 130 bound in house by Graham Moss, with a lino print cover of red stripes and spine cloth in matching red, rounded and backed at the spine with a board and spine letterpress label on yellow paper. Price: £150. Our text begins with an edited show recorded by journalist John Payne Collier in the 1790s. To this illustrated script we have added the earliest known account of a Punch & Judy man, describing his career with all its trials and tribulations, as recorded by Henry Mayhew in 1850.