The final piece of printing had been done, the sheets folded and inserted to form sections. John Abell had now to sign each copy of the colophon page before the sections were collated into books. Happily this coincided with John having finished cutting the...
I can hardly believe it, but the lengthy slog of printing The Diary of a Dead Officer is almost at an end and the binding process can begin. John Abell is at the moment cutting blocks for the papers that will cover the book and the printing of these should be my final...
We spent last weekend at the major Book Fair in Oxford and had a good and successful time. We had restricted what we showed to recent publications and some ‘Specials’ of earlier titles where we still had copies. Sales in both categories were encouragingly...
The time has come, we think, for us to reveal what is happening in the printing office at the moment . . . or, rather, what I have been printing away at for many weeks now, while Frances tells the world about the already wonderfully appreciated The Third Thing...
This year I have not been overdoing the ‘wonders of Nature in the Wye Valley’ brand of post . . . but I thought this might be an exception. Breathtaking to see it in this peak of brightness – especially as the day on which this photo was taken had...
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