Liebestod in Pembrokeshire

I’ve been playing around again . . . at what is becoming one of my favourite forms of relaxation, setting a video of some aspect of the natural world against one of my favourite pieces of music. Although I have chopped it around a bit for the purpose of this...

The Girl from the Sea

I spent this morning preparing and imposing three blocks, proofing and adjusting for evenness of printing surface, depth of ink and so on and, finally, printing a sheet from the actual edition. This is the fifth time that this sheet has gone through the press so I was...

Things coming up!

The beginning of October has regularly been the time for Oak Knoll Books, (in New Castle, Delaware, USA) to host a Fest . . . for those of us who produce books to meet with librarians, collectors and local book lovers in the wonderfully relaxed early autumn sunshine...

Text only for a change!

A few years ago I, in common no doubt with all other members of The Private Libraries Association, was asked by the Chairman to write a little piece about ‘how they came to books and what are their feelings towards them’. I wrote a piece and sent it off....