Excitement is mounting here . . .

. . . and this is a big hint for our many friends who have been around a bit! The fact is that, in 2000, we published The Old Stile Press . . . in the twentieth century which gave the history of the Press and described all the books made up till that point. The cover...

Editing the evening sky

Heartened by the fact that four or five people, quite separately, have said, during the last few days, that they are avid readers of this blog and that they like some of the photographs, I am encouraged to get some recent ones ‘up’. After posting on...

Candles and sunshine for Peter Reddick

Peter Reddick 1924 – 2010 Today, Frances and I were happy to be able to join many scores of his family and friends as Peter Reddick was laid to rest in the remarkably welcoming acres of the woodland burial site close to his home town of Bristol. Of course, the...

Quince . . . lovely word, lovely jelly!

We are heading off tomorrow morning for The Whitechapel Gallery in London to look after our stall at The London Art Book Fair. Lots to pack up and last minute things to remember to do. I just want, however, to make a little post in honour of our Quince tree which has...

It’s proof time!

This morning arrived from J.W. Northend Limited a large packet of proofs – for The Old Stile Press, the next ten years. This is, as I have mentioned a number of times before, the sequel to our first Bibliography (The Old Stile Press, in the Twentieth Century)...