Muttons and Nuts. Phil Treble, Kingston-upon-Hull, England. Tel: +44 (0)7706 146 974. E-mail: [email protected]
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.