We have posted to some people that we have both now celebrated our eightieth birthdays and realise that we should allow ourselves to go a little slower. Standing at a press all day especially in the cold of winter is exhausting and so we have plans for several...

We are often asked about where we sell our books and what sort of people buy them - sometimes I think just on a point of interest but at other times we get the feeling that people like to think they are in good company buying something hand made by a tiny press...

Although I understand that a copy of the first English edition of this book is now rare and somewhat valuable, even without a dust wrapper, the book in my hands at the moment is, quite simply, one of my absolute favourites from a very early point in my life. On the...

As the New Year begins to get going (although Nicolas' urge to hibernate does not really lessen until Spring is upon us!) it is time to get our friends excited by our new book. We have of course been labouring over it for many months but we have not mentioned it...

We seem to veer from hills shrouded in mist to blazingly hot sunshine and the only place to be is stretched on a reclining chair . . . however, to celebrate our golden wedding three years ago we planted a bed of golden flowers and today I picked a bouquet of the now...

Lucy Evans, Rare Books, blogged 'the Bodleian Library collects 154 sonnets from presses around the world . . . ' "From close to home and further afield, from Oxford to Moonshine Road, California, to New Delhi and Llandogo, hand-press printers across the world answered...

The recent death of Sir Peter Shaffer had the inevitable effect here of reminding us of the making of our edition of EQUUS - in 2009. After all the labours of Clive Hicks-Jenkins in the making of the images and of ourselves in getting the book together, we were really...

  This photograph, actually taken some time ago by a visiting friend, does seem rather appropriate at this particular moment - as we have the immense pleasure of launching our new website. It became quite obvious some time ago that our old setup was no longer...

  For a week or so in 1991, Rigby Graham was staying with us during the printing of his monumental book Kippers & Sawdust, helping me with the (to me utterly new and absolutely terrifying) arts of printing colour woodcuts. "Spread it on like strawberry jam"...

For all of the thirty-odd years we have been living at Catchmays Court - and probably about 100 years before that - a wonderfully prominent feature of the landscape has been our massive Araucaria, Chilean Pine. It was a female tree at least 30 metres high and much...

After lunch, I had enjoyed a satisfying snooze in the sun in this very chair. Two hours later it was full of hail. Such exaggerated and unpredictable behaviour is just what one would expect from a year so young. I love it!      ...

      Even more greatly moved by the arrival of Spring than usual this year, I dug into the file remembering this early experiment done in the very first year of my printing life. Some feelings don't change much over the years!   And all at once I saw a crowd -...

For all sorts of reasons we have neglected this blog but having come to the realisation that aspects of our website are no longer functioning we shall endeavour to keep up with our friends here. Putting news and images on Facebook seems even more ephemeral - no sooner...

  We have been amazed at the profusion of Lady's Smock all over the garden this year. Usually a clump here and there and a sprinkling all over. Not this time. Any ideas? Apparently it is loved by the caterpillars of the orange-tip which will account for the many...

  Over in Dublin there is a very lively print museum where there are inspirational workshops for children and adults to learn about the creative processes involved in the making of a book surrounded by the type and presses collected together from letterpress...

   During much of 1997, a 'studio' was formed from a sheet of plastic lashed to a number of trees in a birch grove surrounded by fields at Catchmays Court and the sculptor, Matt Baker, could be found carving away for hours a day at a sizeable chunk of reddish...

    New Publication At the beginning of January 2015 we sent out a notice to those who have opted into our mailing list about this exciting book which brings the ground-breaking French poem by Blaise Cendrars to English readers in a translation by Dick Jones...

    Surprises sometimes come in the daily welter of email - although  most is unwanted. Recently an email arrived telling us of the British Book Design and Production Awards 2014 - only a few days left to enter it said. Among the fifteen categories of different...

Although we are extremely pleased with how our recent publications have turned out and proud of our involvement with the projects and their artists, one could say that they have been weighty in content and spirit . . . as well as in their physical manifestation! A bit...

. . . and gilding the burnished gold! I am always happy when the sweet peas are on the go. This morning, as I approached the sunny wall to relieve the plants of today's crop (pour encourager les autres!) I saw that the flowers (already, in my opinion, one of the most...

    Our prestigious and successful five-week exhibition in the Pierhead Building in Cardiff Bay is now over but there are other places where we shall be taking books this year. First will be the  London International Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia from 22 to 24...

If you have been prevented by matters of State from visiting the Old Stile Press' exhibition at Futures Gallery, Pierhead Building, Cardiff Bay at any time during the past month . . . . . . we can offer the happy news that the show has been extended for a week. It can...