We have been to the Private View, at the Mount Street Gallery in Brecon, of an exhibition of the prints of Robert Macdonald, for many years an important figure in the artistic life in this part of the world . . . although he was originally from New Zealand. He came to...
Unfortunately, just at the time when it is first possible to flit between this Journal and the OSP website (Oh Joy! Oh Rapture!, I hear you cry . . . !) and at a time when we have just send out two leaflets for our new books, the site happens to be in the process of...
Today we are happily able to celebrate the fact that the Wizard of our Website has redesigned the ‘front door’ of the site to enable visitors to visit here as well as decide to wander round the more permanent bibliographical vastnesses of the site. You...
A little bit more about this lovely book, from the point of view of the participants. We have just sent out our prospectus so the book’s success (or viability!) is now in the hands of our loyal friends. An exciting moment but also one tinged with ‘last night blues’....
Wood brings pages to life Books become a work of art at Old Stile Press, where wood engravings, woodcuts, linocuts and other relief blocks are expertly handled by Nicolas McDowall. John Hudson finds out more. SOME of Britain’s most beautiful books are being...
One of the star attractions on our stand at the LAB Fair, as we had fully expected, was Leading the Cranes Home, the collection of ancient Chinese poems (in timeless translations by Arthur Waley) with colour woodcut prints in the Japanese style by Ralph Kiggell . . ....
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