Welcome!

This post is directed particularly at anyone who may have received a Christmas Card from us with a little note attached and felt constrained to drop everything to find us here! You are very welcome and here to greet you is a little poetic license! With the weather...

How I wish this book was one of ours! . . . 2

Natalie d’Arbeloff is a one-off if ever we’ve met one! For decades she has been lauded as one of the most interesting of those artists who choose to express themselves by creating unique or tiny edition books. This is one of the former. Its title Dream and...

Christmas Cards 2

For the Christmas after our great friend and guru, Robin Tanner, died, I made a card by ‘pasting-up’ various of the delicious decorative elements he had added to an earlier Christmas letter. A second ‘Robin Tanner’ created card was made for...

Back to normal!

We are just returned from the fourth opera (in as many days) of a noble and exciting cycle of Wagner’s Ring from The Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg conducted by the thrilling Valery Gergiev. Oh yes . . . and we only had to get as far as the Wales Millennium...

How I wish this book was one of ours! . . . 1

Anyone who has read our Bibliography, heard any talks we have given or talked with us for any time will know that the printer, Nicolas, has had no formal typographical training at all but puts whatever ‘eye’ and ‘instinct’ he may have developed...

Christmas Cards

In the printing office, I am working on this year’s Greetings Card – rather later than usual. I will keep you posted! Meanwhile I thought it might possibly be interesting to look at some of the Cards from previous years. This was a very early (still in...