The Reading Room Press. Miles Wigfield, Coneygar Lodge, Quenington, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 5BZ, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1285 750 662. Website: http://thereadingroompress.com.
Jenny Uglow, Nigel Tattersfield. Bewick’s Matchem. 2021. 16 pp. 236 x 170 mm. Caslon on Heritage Book White with illustrations by Thomas Bewick printed from line blocks and photographs of a copper medallion with Bewick’s engraving of the famous racehorse Matchem. Printed on Barrett Albion press. 120 copies. Case bound in quarter cloth with marbled papers by Victoria Hall, gold-blocked title on front cloth, price £48 + p&p.
Plain Wrapper Press Redux. Mark Fischer. 7887 N New Braunfels Avenue, San Antonio, TX 78209, USA. Tel: +1 267 250 6000. Website: https://www.plainwrapperpress.com.
John D. Wagner. The Kallima Butterfly. 2022. 7 pp. 292 x 203 mm. 16pt Centaur on Velké Losiny Prague with photogravure by John D. Wagner. Printed on 219 Vandercook. 80 copies, single signature handsewn into boards covered with Cinnamon Canapetta cloth; on the cover, Archive Bugra label with pressmark printed in black; book enclosed in a duplex Archive/Evergreen Bugra folder with four flaps; on the folder spine, Archive Bugra label with author and title printed in black; price $180. Book design and calligraphy by Jerry Kelly. The type was handset. Printing by Sandy Tilcock at the lone goose press. Binder: Jace Graf (Cloverleaf Studio, Inc.). Publisher Emeritus Gabriel Rummonds oversaw the project.
Greenboathouse Press. Jason Dewinetz, Box 1551 Vernon, BC, Canada. Tel: +1 250 938 9042. Website: http://www.greenboathouse.com.
Aaron Peck & Jason Dewinetz. Arranging Furniture. Greenboathouse Press. 2021. 72 pp. 325 x 235 mm. ATF Cloister Lightface & wood type on 150gsm Hahnemühle Biblio with twenty-five compositions printed directly from letterpress furniture in over 30 colours. Printed on a Vandercook 15-21 & 219. 70 copies: 60 in stiff full-paper binding of St Armand handmade with Barcham Green Charter Oak double-endsheets, sewn onto exposed linen tapes, cloth-covered slipcase, price $750; 10 copies as above with portfolio of 10 prints from the book, enclosed together in a full cloth drop-spine box, with a recessed paper label on the spine, and one of the forms of wooden furniture used to print the compositions mounted inside the upper tray, price $1500. Both editions bound by Alanna Simenson in Sooke, BC, Canada.
Wiesedruck. Sarah Horowitz, 170 W Center Street Leavenworth, WA 98826, USA. Tel: +1 503 233 1679. Website: https://www.sarahhorowitzartist.com.
Edgar Allan Poe. Conchyliorum: On Investigating Shells and Collecting. Sarah Horowitz, notes and annotation. Wiesedruck. 2020. 49 pp. 241 x 172 mm (9.5 x 6.75 in). Scotch Modern types on ‘Phoenix’, a flax, hemp and cotton paper (120 gsm) made expressly for this book by Gangolf Ulbricht, Kaji natural (kozo fibers), with 41 etchings by Sarah Horowitz. Printed on a Vandercook and Charles Brand Etching presses. 40 copies: 35 in boards covered in grey Hahnemühle Bugra, with etching (black all-over shell pattern), grey-green leather spine label stamped in gold, pink leather hinges visible, slipcase of fabric and paper, price $3500; 5 in full leather binding, inlaid pink and grey-green leather with gold stamping, spine as above, price: Sold out. All etchings in the deluxe variant are hand-colored with watercolors. Both editions bound by Claudia Cohen.
Luminice Press. Thomas Parker Williams, 153 Carson St. Philadelphia, PA 19127, USA. Tel: +1 215 439 8871. Website: https://www.thomasparkerwilliams.com.
Mary Agnes Williams. Two Moons. Luminice Press. 2021. 24 pp. 203 x 203 mm. Hand-set 18 pt Park Avenue / 12 pt Janson on Classic Linen (body) and Washi Linen (spine), with 14 original images printed with Dremel-engraved polycarbonate plates and oil-based pochoir mylar stencils by Thomas Parker Williams. Printed on a Hand-built hydraulic hand press with electronic pressure sensing. 15 copies, modified dos-à-dos binding with painted and unpainted aluminum covers with cutout and paper liner, price $2,000.
Corvus Works. Christopher Wakeling, 9 Ravenside Terrace Blackhill Consett, Durham, UK. Tel: +44(0)7824 397 664. Website: https://corvusworks.co.uk.
Jan Tschichold and Jost Hochuli. Sabon: Tschichold & Hochuli. Translated by Christopher Wakeling and Pat Wichert. Corvus Works. 2021. 36 pp. 375 x 250 mm. Sabon (Stempel and Monotype) on Zerkall, Hahnemhüle and Somerset Book with 6 black and white photographs. Printed on Korrex Hannover. 90 copies. Bound with French marble papers over boards with cloth spine, label tipped-on spine, price £100. English translation of Tschichold’s 1967 essay ‘Life and Work of Jacob Sabon’ and first translation of Hochuli’s 1969 review of the ‘New Typeface’, first published in STM. Sample pages with quotes by and about Tschichold and the Sabon typeface. Composed in Stempel foundry cast Sabon up to 48pt Didot in various page arrangements and printed in several colours. Two tipped-in type pieces plus one image of Sabon’s crest. Digital b&w photos of cast type, matrices and samples.
The Garlow Studio. Sue Kaplan, 763 Nowita Place, Venice, CA, USA. Tel: +1 310 822 0161. Website: https://www.thegarlowstudio.com.
Michael Castro. The Guide: Maimonides’ Journey. The Garlow Studio. 2019. 35 pp. 146 x 111 mm (5.75 x 4.375 in). Poliphilus and Blado on custom handmade papers from Katie McGregor, with a multi-color woodblock print created, editioned and handcoloured by Marcia Brown, a two-colour initial on the opening page and ornamental flowers dividing the sections throughout. Printed on a Vandercook SP15. 50 copies, designed by Marcia Moore and executed by Danita Rafalovich and Marcia Brown, in heavy blue paper covers, red endleaves, exposed spine with leather tabs, a black leather-covered clamshell case with spine label, price $375. Castro’s narrative poem relates the biography and thought of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), considered one of the most important Jewish theologians of all time. The print references the architecture and tile work of medieval Middle East synagogues in areas where Maimonides lived before his exile. Castro, poet laureate of St Louis and a leader of the literary community, died in 2008.
The Florin Press. Graham Williams, Vent House, Stalisfield Road, Charing, Kent, UK. Tel: +44(0)1233 712 774. Email: info@florinpress.com. Website: https://www.florinpress.com
Graham Williams. A Collection of Printing from Woodblocks. The Florin Press. 2021. 12pp Notes plus various quantities of leaves. Ca.197 x 210 mm. Joanna (Monotype) on various hand-made, mould-made and machine-made papers, with 28 wood engravings printed from the wood by Thomas Bewick, Mathew Urlwin Sears, Graham Williams, Peter Forster, Simon Brett, John O’Connor, Monica Poole and anon. Printed on Albion and Columbian hand presses. Main edition of 60 copies: 25 copies with paperbound Notes, 61 leaves, in a drop back box with green cloth, brown and fawn papers, printed paper label on front, printed limitation label inside, price £865; 35 with Notes, 35 leaves, in box as above, price £485; Variant edition of 15 copies: 5 with Notes, 96 leaves in a drop back box with green cloth, marbled paper, morocco spine label, printed paper label on front, printed limitation label inside, OOP; 10 with Notes, 78 leaves, in box as above, price £1,355.
Starshaped Press. Jennifer Farrell, 4636 N. Ravenswood #103, Chicago, IL 60640, USA. Tel: +1 773 728 6359. Website: http://www.starshaped.com.
Jennifer Farrell. The Twelve Alphabet. 2021. 58 pp. 305 x 305 mm. 12 pt metal type and ornaments on Zerkall soft white. Printed on a Vandercook SP-15. 40 copies bound in Somerset gray wraparound soft cover with screw post binding, price $480. A new abecedarium in which each letter form and the ampersand are constructed entirely of sorts having 12 pts along at least one side. Designed from a large collection of metal ornaments, each image measures 6” square and is printed (recto only) in two split fountain ink passes.
Intima Press Editions. Mindy Belloff, 32 Union Square East, Studio 310, New York, NY 10003, USA. Tel: +1 917 412 4134. Website: https://IntimaPress.com.
Mindy Belloff. Hester . Emma . Sonia [ Joni . Annie . Tracy ] A Postmodern Feminist Discourse. 2022. 300 pp. 266 x 196 x 44 mm. Featuring: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Gustave Flaubert’s Madam Bovary, and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (abridged). Introduction, “No Text Stands Alone” by art critic Saul Ostrow, Afterword, “Through a Feminist Lens,” and Appendix with over 100 bibliographic references. Over 40 reproductions of fine artworks: paintings, drawings, photographs, and calligrams by the artist adorn the pages. A selection of text is in Latin, French, and Russian. Includes 40 reproductions of fine artworks, paintings, drawings, photographs, and calligrams by the artist. Printed on a Uni III A/B + Epson Professional. 32 copies: 26 standard, 6 deluxe in two designs. Bindings designed by Mindy Belloff. Standard edition quarter bound aqua blue Sokoto leather, spine millimeter binding, sewn and bound by Celine Lombardi with letterpress printed thick paper covers, printed by Mindy Belloff. Deluxe edition two designs: full leather bound or leather and parchment with custom box, bound by Celine Lombardi. Price standard $7,500, deluxe (POA). Two and a half years in the making, the volume gives voice to the main characters Hester Prynne, Emma Bovary, and Sonia Marmeladov. The subtitle refers to singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell, Annie Lennox and Tracy Chapman, whose poetic lyrics, along with those of other musical artists as well as text from philosophers, writers and poets such as Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, Susan Sontag and Julia Kristeva, provide commentary in the marginalia.
