The early camera catches the light!

If The Old Stile Press was looking for a design for a new flag, this would be rather jolly! Having had to get out of bed a bit earlier than usual in order to provide a cup of coffee to staying friends with a plane to catch, I realized that the rising sun was further...

How I wish this book was one of ours! . . . 5

Although the majority of the books we have discovered over the years and now treasure were published in the UK, there have always been some (from the US or from Europe, say) that have caught our attention and have made sure that the rule was broken. One such is Macao...

Benjamin Britten’s “A Christmas Sequence”

One of the most exciting and yet daunting stages in the process of our book building is when we take over from an artist the blocks which we know have taken months if not years for him or her complete. Recently, on the way to Glasgow for an all too rare visit to our...

Black Marigolds . . . first sample copy

In an earlier post, I gave photographs of the two printings I had done towards the binding of this new book . . . but gave no clue as to how they would be deployed. We have now had a first sample from the binder and the answer can be seen. Further experimental work...