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)...

A one way trip to Bloomington, Indiana!

These have been really exciting times for us here . . . but first I must indulge in a little history. When I was a junior editor in London, at the start of my (commercial) Publisher’s career, I was already an avid hunter for books – of different sorts but...

a bit of a special day . . .

We are not usually ones for foisting on others the more personal details of our lives but, probably encouraged but a nice lunchtime bottle of wine with our prawns, sunshine and wonderful wind in the birches and the aspen, I am posting these photos without even...

Worth and Value

Sometime in the early 1960s, my new job involved lots of driving round the country (UK) but I always tried to find a moment to pop into any antique or second-hand bookshop I passed. My funds then were by no means lavish but I did pick up one or two items which still...