Old School Press. Martyn and Angela Ould, Cliff Edge, Beer Hill, Seaton EX12 2QD, England. Tel: +44 (0)1297 24689. www.theoldschoolpress.com
Martyn Ould. Printing at the University Press, Oxford, 1660–1780. Volume II. 2018. 168 pp. 275 × 216 mm. Van Dijck on Mohawk Superfine with numerous facsimiles and photographs. Printed digitally. 250 copies: 200 in full brown cloth, with a printed paper dust-jacket, price £125; 50 in quarter leather with Jemma Lewis marbled paper-covered boards, with a portfolio of additional letterpress specimens, in a slip-case, price £350. The first volume was published in 2015. This second volume covers the subject of type at OUP in the period 1660–1780. The third volume was published in 2019 (see below).
Martyn Ould. Printing at the University Press, Oxford, 1660–1780. Volume III. 2019. 208 pp. 275 × 216 mm. Van Dijck on Mohawk Superfine with numerous facsimiles and photographs. Printed digitally. 250 copies: 200 in full brown cloth, with a printed paper dust-jacket, price £105; 50 in quarter leather with Jemma Lewis marbled paper-covered boards, with an additional letterpress volume, Learning about Printing (32 pages), in a slip-case, price £300. This third volume covers the subject of publishing and printing processes at OUP in the period 1660–1780.Learning about Printing concerns Bishop Fell and his attempts to run the Press on a commercial basis in competition with the London stationers, based on manuscripts by Fell and others surviving in the Bodleian.
Muttons and Nuts. Phil Treble, Kingston-upon-Hull, England. Tel: +44 (0)7706 146 974. E-mail: philtreble@gmail.com
Francis James Child, editor. Tamlane. 2019. 20 pp. 245 × 150 mm. Centaur on Somerset Book with a four-colour linocut by Phil Treble. Printed on a Vandercook proof press. 50 copies bound by the printer in full green cloth with a printed cover-label (covering the top third of the front board), price £80. An old Scottish ballad, ‘The Young Tamlane’, extracted from Child’s English and Scottish Ballads of 1857. Copy number ‘1’ is offered in a specially-made tartan portfolio at £200.
Jeff Johnson. A Miniature. 2019. 26 pp. 210 ×140 mm. Bembo on Somerset Book with a digital reproduction of a detail of a painting by the author. Printed on a Vandercook proof press. 50 copies (20 for sale) bound by the printer in full dark blue cloth, price £50. A posthumous collection of sixteen poems by Johnson, who is better known as a miniature-painter. The book was designed by Christopher Wilson of Oberphones.
Alembic Press. Claire and David Bolton, Riverside, Wilsham Road, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 5HP, England. Tel: +44 (0)1865 391391. www.alembicpress.co.uk
David Bolton. A Figure Specimen. 2018. 24 pp. 295 × 155 mm. Modern Extended on Rivoli. Printed on a Vandercook SP20 proof press. 30 copies sewn into printed card wrappers, price £15. A type-specimen of all the matrices for Monotype figures held by the Press, and a companion to the Press’s Sign Specimen (2009).
Ad Lib Press. Robert Oldham, Aptdo 131-7150, Turrialba, Costa Rica. Tel: +1 506 8701 1573. www.adlibpress.us
Robert Oldham. Escape from Terror. 2019. 250 pp. 135 × 215 mm. Village type on Astroparche Text (Natural and Aged on alternating pages) with twenty mixed-media illustrations by the author. Printed on a modified Poco No. 0 press. 50 copies in quarter morocco with pale brown cloth-covered boards, price US$250. The illustrations are created from modified photographs, photo-engravings, linocuts and typographical ornaments. Income from sales will go towards the author’s project to use ‘optically stimulated luminescence dating’ on megalithic sites in South-central Portugal.
