Where Many Shipwrack

by John Donne images by Robert Macdonald a selection of early poems by John Donne with woodcut images by Robert Macdonald The poems are taken from Songs and Sonnets and Elegies, the earliest writings of John Donne (1572-1631). This love poetry is intense, rhetorical...

The Old Stile Press … in the twentieth century

by Dorothy A. Harrop Frances McDowall Nicolas McDowall Peter Wakelin Buy both this volume and "the next ten years" for £80 This book contains a wealth of factual detail about Old Stile Press books (together with many images and a good deal of background information)...

White Voices (La Croisade des Enfants)

by Marcel Schwob images by Keith Bayliss There will be few people who do not feel in some way moved, emotionally involved even, when mention is made of The Children's Crusade. Keith Bayliss has made large woodcut images of the children in progress through the book --...

A Christmas Sequence

by Benjamin Britten Chester Mystery Cycle images by Angela Lemaire John Abell Chosen by Benjamin Britten from the Chester Mystery Cycle with an Introduction by Dr Andrew Plant. Fifty years ago Benjamin Britten wrote Noye’s Fludde – an opera-for-all telling the story...

Three Miniature Books

images by Julian Schwarz Eight Cycling Sibyls, Eight Famous Crows from Ancient Rome and Eight Nudes on One Plank created by Julian Schwarz Julian Schwarz, sculptor and printmaker who lives in France, took a floorboard one day and carved into it Eight Nudes on One...