Procreant Hymn bound

This, our latest venture, is described below. Just to say that the binding of the first tranche of copies is now completed, as this photograph from our friends at The Fine Book Bindery shows. The next task is to collect the copies and then Frances can begin to fulfil...

Eric Gill: Procreant Hymn

This is a time which we always enjoy (and usually feel we rather deserve!) . . . when a book has been completed and photographed and some promotion has been designed and despatched. In the old days this involved a physically-printed card or leaflet and it was the...

Centenary

This is one of my favourite photographs and I really want to post it here this morning, February 22nd, 2011. It is of my mother who was born in 1911, one hundred years ago today. Sadly she did not hang in for her telegram from the Queen but the photograph helps me to...

We are ready for our close-up, Mr Grigor!

New readers may not know that Frances and I are both graduates of St Andrews University (in the distant past) and were friends then . . . although we only ‘got together’ at a later date! Another friend of both of us back then, and subsequently, was Murray...

We are ready for our close-up, Mr Grigor!

New readers may not know that Frances and I are both graduates of St Andrews University (in the distant past) and were friends then . . . although we only ‘got together’ at a later date! Another friend of both of us back then, and subsequently, was Murray...

Up the Wye with a makeshift Claude glass

One day last summer, Frances and I went on a trip in a motor boat up the River Wye, from Chepstow to Tintern and back again. The event was designed of course to give some of the flavour of the Picturesque Trips taken by the oh-so-romantic followers of the Rev. Gilpin...