Leslie Gerry Editions. Leslie Gerry, The Eight Gabled House, Dowdeswell, Gloucestershire GL54 4LX, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0)1242 820653. Website: lesliegerryeditions.com
Edith Wharton. Marrakesh. 2020. 96 pp. 480 × 320 mm. Bembo with 30 colour paintings by Leslie Gerry. Printed on an Epson digital printer. 90 copies: 80 on Bockingford and Zerkall mould-made papers, in quarter leather with printed cloth-covered boards, in a slip case, price £1450; ten on Moulin du Gue and Zerkall papers, in full inlaid leather, with a set of progressive prints and a miniature volume, together in a solander box, price £4720. A collection of paintings made on a visit to Marrakesh in 2019, accompanied by an extract from Wharton’s In Morocco (1920).
Jeremy Greenwood. 1 Warren Hill Road, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 4DT, United Kingdom. Tel: +44 (0)1394 380044.
Jeremy Greenwood. John Nash: Newly Discovered Engravings and Drawings. 2020. 32 pp. 320 × 245 mm. Sabon on Lambeth Cartridge with 17 wood-engravings, ten drawings and two etchings by John Nash. Printed lithographically by J. W. Northend. 200 copies in full cloth, cover-label, price £43. A supplement to The wood-engravings of John Nash (Wood Lea Press, 1987).
Parvenu Press. Carolyn Trant, 17 St Anne’s Crescent, Lews, East Sussex BN7 1SB, England. Tel: +44 (0)7906 868361. Website: carolyntrantparvenu.blogspot.com
Carolyn Trant. The Daily Print and Horrorscope. 2019. 14 pp. 200 × 140 mm. With six woodcuts by the author. Printed on a Rollaco etching press. 12 copies in quarter ‘Gorilla tape’ with corrugated cardboard-covered boards, price £85. Printed entirely from woodcuts. The first in the Press’s series ‘cartonera’ books on political and social themes.
Carolyn Trant. Map of Lost Cuckoos. 2019. 24 pp. 300 × 160 mm. With 12 hand-coloured woodcuts by the author. Printed on a Rollaco etching press. 32 copies: 20 printed over newspaper articles reflecting climate change, in quarter cloth with corrugated cardboard-covered boards, cover-label, price £85; 12 on Somerset paper, concertina-folded in a larger format (300 × 185 mm), in full cloth, cover-label, price £175. Printed entirely from woodcuts. In the Press’s series of books on climate change, highlighting a British bird threatened with extinction.
Corvus Works. Christopher Wakeling, 9 Ravenside Terrace, Blackhill, Consett, Durham DH8 0LB, England. Tel: +44 (0)7824 397664. Website: www.corvusworks.co.uk
C. M. Leumane. The Lambton Worm. Introductory essay by Dr Helen Williams. 2019. 16 pp. 275 × 190 mm. Sabon and Optima on Zerkall and Hahnemühle with drawings by Sara Ogilvie printed from line-blocks. Printed on a Victoria Art Platen press. 80 copies (58 for sale) in quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, cover-label, price £35. An annotated edition of the famous Geordie ballad, first performed in pantomime in 1867.
Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson. Shakespearian Punctuation. Foreword by Christopher Wakeling. 2020. 16 pp. 165 × 250 mm. Palatino on Arches and Hahnemühle. Printed on a Korrex Hannover proof press. 70 copies sewn into dark green paper wrappers, cover-label, £22. Originally written as a letter to the editor of The Times in 1912, accompanied by the text from the Doves Press announcement of forthcoming editions of Shakespeare.
Deep Wood Press. Chad Pastotnik, P.O. Box 726, Mancelona, Michigan 49659, U.S.A. Tel: +1 231 587 0506. Website: www.deepwoodpress.com
Franz Kafka. In the Penal Colony. Translated by Breon Mitchell. 2018. 37 pp. 327 × 250 mm. Janson with six etchings by Dellas Henke. Printed on a Vandercook 219OS proof press. 39 copies: 30 on Somerset paper, in quarter black morocco with Fabriano paper-covered boards, in a slip case, price £1300; six on Somerset and Barcham Green papers, in full decorated leather, in a clamshell box, price £1700; three on Barcham Green hand-made paper, in full leather, price £1700 (out of print). A new translation commissioned for this edition.
Camino Press. Matt Kelsey, 14321 Lutheria Way, Saratoga, California 95070, U.S.A. Tel: +1 408 313 3306. www.liberapertus.com/camino
Dave Farey. Goudy’s Last Christmas. 2020. 15 pp. 230 × 150 mm. Kennerley on Arturo Book with three images of Goudy and one of the Kennerley pinmark printed from line blocks. Printed on a Challenge MP-15 proof press. 110 copies sewn into card covers and printed red paper wrappers, price $45. A ‘shaggy dog story’ about Goudy, printed using a fount of Kennerly cast by the short-lived Advance Type Foundry.
Wigtown Press. Helen Morley, Scotland. Tel: +44 (0)1988 402802. www.helenmorley.org/
Max Erhmann. The Desiderata. 2020. 24 pp. 100 × 118 mm. Baskerville on cartridge paper with ten acrylic-engravings by Helen Morley. Printed on a Cropper Minerva treadle press. 50 copies in quarter red cloth with patterned paper-covered boards, price £50. The first book from the Press.
Egremont Press. Gordon Chesterman, 17 Richmond Road, Cambridge CB4 3PP, England. Tel: +44 (0)7786 013452. www.flickr.com/photos/84352305@N00/
A Little Book of Poems and Illustrations. 48 pp. 180 × 120 mm. Nicolas Cochin on laid paper with four drawings by Fiona Whitehouse printed from line blocks. Printed on an Adana 8 × 5 press. 120 copies in quarter dark red cloth with printed paper-covered boards. Not for sale. A selection of thirty poems by diverse authors.
Fork and Broom Press. Annette C. Disslin, Oppenweher Strasse 9, Stemwede, NRW D-32351, Germany. Tel: +49 176 46105026. www.forkandbroompress.net
William Dean Howells. Earliest Spring. 2020. 12 pp. 255 × 165 mm. Trajanus and Jaguar on Hahnemühle with two linocuts by Annette C. Disslin. Printed on a Grafix proof press. Seven copies sewn into printed paper wrappers, price €40.
Incline Press. Graham Moss, 36 Bow Street, Oldham, Lancashire OL1 1SJ, England. Tel: +44 (0)1616 271966. www.inclinepress.com
Fredric Brewer. The Printer’s Fist. 2019. 6 pp. 115 × 90 mm. Poliphilus on W. S. Head hand-made with cast fists and a woodcut by Matt Mckellier. Printed on an AutoVic treadle press. 120 copies sewn into St Armand card covers, price £10. Printed to accompany the exhibition ‘A show of hands’ at Corsham Court during September and October 2019.
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Keith Pettit. Stillness. Introduction by Graham Moss. 2019. 6 pp. 172 × 110 mm. Fairbanks on Velke Losiny hand-made with a wood-engraving of the Long Man of Wilmington by Pettit. Printed on an AutoVic treadle press. 60 copies sewn into Two Rivers paper covers, price £25.
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Robert Burns. Two Songs. Introduction by Graham Moss and Kathy Whalen. 12 pp. 170 × 115 mm. Bembo on hand-made paper with three Victorian stock-blocks and an ampersand by Mark McKellier. Printed on an AutoVic treadle press. 110 copies: 65 sewn into printed pink Khadi wrappers; 45 sewn into printed pale blue ingres wrappers, price £25. Printed to celebrate Burns’ Night. The paper was made for the Stanbrook Abbey Press. Most copies were sent as a parting gift from Kathy Whalen to those who had sent her their good wishes during her final illness.
