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(Old Stile Press) Barnfield, Richard RICHARD BARNFIELD'S SONNETS.
(Llandogo, Monmouthshire, UK The Old Stile Press 2001) oblong 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards in cloth slipcase (46) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 200 numbered copies by Nicolas McDowall at The Old Stile Press. The Perpetua types were generated by computer and polymer blocks were used throughout to print the book by letterpress on 300gsm Somerset Printmaking paper, and bound at The Fine Bindery. All the images in this book and those used in its binding are by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, and signed by him on the last page. These Sonnets by Richard Barnfield (1574-1627) were originally published in 1595--one year later than The Affectionate Shepheard--in a volume entitled Cynthia.
Price: $ 285.00 other currencies Order nr. 64817

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(Old Stile Press) Britten, Benjamin A CHRISTMAS SEQUENCE.
Chosen by Benjamin Britten from the Chester Mystery Cycle. Introduction by Dr. Andrew Plant. Images by Angela Lemaire. (Llandogo) Old Stile Press (2008) folio quarter leather, paper-covered boards, slipcase with large paper label on front not paginated
Limited to 205 copies, this being one of the main edition of 195 numbered and signed by the artist. This work is taken from the second draft of the libretto for Britten's Christmas Sequence, left unfinished by his death in 1976. Angela Lemaire has cut magnificent woodblocks which capture a splendid sense of the medieval play, its presentation by contemporary children and a mystical rendering of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus. The scenes included involve the Salutation, which introduces Gabriel, Mary and Joseph, Elizabeth and midwives who arrive for the birth; The Shepherds; the Magi; Herod and the Innocents and the knights who carry out the orders to kill. The language is wonderfully down to earth -- designed to entertain in the market places of medieval Chester and the surrounding towns. The woodcuts dance through every page, 76 blocks were cut and printed in midnight black (which is slightly blue) weaving between the blocks of text, printed in seville black (slightly orange). The binding was inspired by the colours of medieval stained glass, green images on blue for the covers with a black leather spine as though leading on the window. A deep red cloth on the slipcase surrounds a large label printed on golden yellow paper.
The book was designed by Nicolas McDowall, printed on Vélin Arches paper, the type is Truesdell and Lemaire's woodcut images were all printed from the wood. A gorgeous new production.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 100253

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(Old Stile Press) Brothers Grimm. FAITHFUL JOHN.
(Llandogo, Monmouthshire, Great Britain) The Old Stile Press (1998) large 8vo. cloth, portfolio, slipcase 34, (4) pages, and 15 artist proofs in a portfolio
The Special Edition of twenty-six lettered copies which have, contained in a portfolio, signed proofs of each of the wood engravings, printed by the artist on Japanese paper (Harrop, 118-19). Designed and printed by Nicolas McDowall on 175gsm Zerkall mouldmade paper, from a special making, on a FAG Control 900 press. The text was set in Centaur, computer generated, and was printed from polymer blocks, as were the second-colour decorations. Maroon cloth spine with gilt spine titling and bright blue paper sides overprinted in gold to produce images derived from the frontispiece. Plum coloured Bugra Butten endpapers, head tinted grey, fore-edge and tail uncut. Both volumes in a maroon cloth slipcase with recessed image printed black on white. The books were bound by The Fine Bindery. The frontispiece and fifteen wood engravings, as well as all images on the book, are by Harry Brockway and the wood engravings were printed from the wood. Signed by the artist on the colophon.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 64850

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(Old Stile Press) Butler, S.J. THE SWIMMER.
Monmouthshire, UK The Old Stile Press 2012 4to decorated paper covered boards (33) pages
One of 100 numbered and signed copies by the author and artist. The Swimmer tells the story of a writer working in her room overlooking a river during a long, hot summer. Overcoming her initial fear of the river with its power and strength to overwhelm a swimmer, she steps into the water and into an unexplored realm of emotion. Words and pictures swim together in the cooling water past tree-lined banks, under a bridge and around curving bends. Later, a richly inventive photographer reads the story and is inspired to create a suite of images to accompany it, employing both ancient and modern photographic techniques. At this point the book designer/printer feels that the storys sense of flow and the photographers images, which float as if in the water alongside the swimmer, could happily be brought together in a book where type has been chosen for slow contemplative reading and the cover design places the whole in the heart of nature.

The story curls across the page slowing the reader to the pace of the swimmer. Emotions crowd in as initial fear moves to exhilaration, apprehension turns to pleasure. S.J. Butler's words and Steffi Puschs pictures together create an atmosphere in which the reader too can share the emotion of the story. They each write a preface to introduce their approach to storytelling and its presentation through photography.

The Swimmer first appeared in The Warwick Review and was then selected for The Best British Short Stories 2011 published by Salt. This is its first publication together with Steffi Puschs photographs. Photographs by Steffi Pusch.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 109794

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(Old Stile Press) Hardy, Thomas GREEN BLADES FROM HER MOUND
Poems, from Poems of 1912-13 (Llandogo) Old Stile Press (2007) square folio wrap-around image on paper over cloth boards, folding cloth slipcase not paginated
One of 200 bound thus as the main edition. Signed by Mark Cazalet who chose the poems and created the images. Thomas Hardy's wife Emma died in November 1912, in the attic room of their house where she had lived estranged from him. Their marriage had hardened into an empty shell and Hardy had long been in love with Florence Dugdale, whom he married the following year.
However, on reading Emma's secret memoirs detailing his cruelty and the breakdown of their marriage, Hardy was hit by an avalanche of grief. He returned to the north Cornish coast of their courtship and spent the rest of 1912 and 1913 producing his most lyrical and abiding collection of poetry.
Mark Cazalet has created images to act as visual equivalents for the extraordinary insights Hardy found in the depths of his experience, rather than attempting his topography or historical period. He arranged the sequence to suggest his gradual reconciliation to guilt and grief, resolving into a dawning sense of acceptance. It was a long and painstaking task to cut wood and linoleum for the twenty-two large images. Each page opening involves three colours on characterful Italian white paper, and the inks were specially mixed by Canfield Colours from natural pigments.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 97589

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(Old Stile Press) Harrop, Dorothy A OLD STILE PRESS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, A BIBLIOGRAPHY 1979-1999.
(Monmouthshire) Old Stile Press (2000) small 4to. decorated paper-covered boards, dust jacket 135+(1) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 1000 copies. A bibliography of The Old Stile Press that covers all material produced by this press from its beginning in 1979 to 1999. Each entry is accompanied with woodcut illustrations from the books. There are introductory essays by Dorothy Harrop, Frances McDowall, Nicolas McDowall, and Peter Wakelin. Indexed.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 60793

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(Old Stile Press) JOURNEY OF THOMAS THE RHYMER.
Llandogo, Monmouthshire, England The Old Stile Press (2000) large 8vo. printed paper-covered boards, cloth slipcase with printed pictorial label. 38, (4) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 220 numbered and signed copies. Finely illustrated with original wood engravings by Angela Lemaire. The title page and the colophon page are attractively printed in two colors.
Price: $ 155.00 other currencies Order nr. 61959

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(Old Stile Press) ROBIN TANNER & THE OLD STILE PRESS, BEING PRINTED EXAMPLES OF TWENTY ORIGINAL PATTERNED PAPER DESIGNS.
With a Personal Memoir by Nicolas McDowall. Llandogo, Nr Monmouth The Old Stile Press (1994) small 4to. cloth-backed boards, slipcase on which are pasted examples of pattern paper. (34) pages followed by the 20 leaves containing tipped-on examples of patterned paper, colophon page.
Limited to 195 numbered copies signed by Nicolas McDowall, the author and printer. McDowall has written an autobiographical sketch describing Robin Tanner, the artist, and his wife Heather Tanner. In so doing, he also describes the history of his press. Tanner was a good friend of the press and produced patterned papers for three of the Old Stile Press books. Seventeen of the papers shown in this book have never been seen before. Tanner and his wife are now both deceased.
Price: $ 145.00 other currencies Order nr. 41164

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(Old Stile Press) Schwarz, Julian THREE MINIATURE BOOKS: EIGHT CYCLING SIBYLS, EIGHT FAMOUS CROWS FROM ANCIENT ROME AND EIGHT NUDES ON ONE PLANK.
3 volumes Monmouthshire, England Old Stile Press 1995 miniature paper covered boards unpaginated, one fold-out
First edition, limited to 240 copies signed by the artist. Julian Schwarz, sculptor and printmaker who lives in France, took a floorboard one day and carved into it Eight Nudes on One Plank. He followed this with two more sequences of small but powerful and wonderfully witty woodcuts and the three appear here as miniature books. Each consists of eight images cut on single pieces of wood. Printed on various Zerkall papers, on a FAG Control 900 press. Bound by Habib Dingle. Paper covered boards, sponge decorated by the printer.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 104960

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(Old Stile Press) Verstegan, Richard PYED PYPER, A PASSAGE EXTRACTED FROM A RESTITUTION OF DECAYED INTELLIGENCE IN ANTIQUITIES, BY THE STUDIE & TRAUAILE OF RICHARD VERSTEGAN.
(Llandogo, UK) The Old Stile Press 2002 4to. full limp calf, blindtooled with rosettes and an image on front cover not paginated, but (24) pages
Designed and printed by Nicolas McDowall in an edition limited to 175 copies, each numbered and signed by the artist. The text was set in Hiroshige Book type and was printed from polymer plates on Fabriano Ingres paper, with binding by The Fine Bindery. Hiroshige was designed in 1986 by Cynthia Hollandsworth of AlphaOmega Typography; it was originally commissioned for a book of woodblock prints by the 19th-century Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige, whose work influenced many Impressionist artists. Illustrated with linocuts and wood engravings by Angela Lemaire, printed from the original blocks in a variety of ink colors. The text (London, John Norton, 1634) is the earliest known version in English of the extraordinary tale of the children of Hamelin. In her images for this book, Angela Lemaire uses rich color and the differing textures of wood and linocut, shown in the swirl of the river moving through the landscape, in the walls around a medieval town, and the dancing line of children disappearing into the hillside.
Price: $ 315.00 other currencies Order nr. 73324

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(Private Press) OAK KNOLL FEST 1995.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 1995 cloth portfolio with paper cover label containing 17 10" x 15" letterpress printed posters issued in celebration of Oak Knoll Fest 1995 held in New Castle on October 7th.
Issued in only 65 sets of which 46 are for sale. Each private press printer was given the same text to incorporate in a poster celebrating this private press book fair. They added their own design concepts and illustrations and chose their own type and paper. Posters were included by the following participants: Alembic Press, Ascensius Press, Bird & Bull Press, Bowne & Co., Caliban Press, Endgrain Press, The Hill Press, Larkspur Press, Midnight Paper Sales, The Old Stile Press, Out of the Woods Press, Pentagram Press, Perpetua Press, Previous Parrot Press, Stephen Heaver, Stone House Press, and Whittington Press. With some stunning uses of color. Posters show wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec, John de Pol, and Peter Foster; an engraving by Gwenda Morgan; a woodcut by Stan Dobbin; and a linoleum cut by Gregor Campbell. Also features a quote from Merce Dostale.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 42561

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(Private Press) OAK KNOLL FEST X 2003
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books 2003 cloth portfolio with paper cover label containing 33 10" x 15" letterpress printed posters issued in celebration of Oak Knoll Fest 2003 held in New Castle on October 3-5.
Issued in only 125 sets of which 94 are for sale. The thirty-three broadsides display a broad range of design and printing methods. Organized by Graham Moss, each private press printer chose their own text and design scheme. The presses include: Aardvark, Alembic, Barbarian, Bird and Bull, Bombshelter, Celtic Cross, Editions du Silence, Fleece, Gwasg Gregynog, Harsimus, Incline, Inky Parrot, Kat Ran, Lark Sparrow, Lone Oak, Midnight Paper Sales, Ninja, Old School, Michael Peich, Perpetua Press, Pre Nian, Robin Price, Rampant Lions, Shanty Bay, Sherwin Beach, Tern, Walking Bird, Warwick, Whittington, Woodside, and Yellow Barn. The portfolio was designed by Campbell-Logan Bindery, and the title page and colophon were printed with type cast by Theo Rehak. Included are "The Apple Orchard" by Dana Gioia, excerpts from Daniel Berekley Updike's "The Practice of Printing," C.P. Cavaky's "Awaiting the Barbarians," Hansard'sTypographia, W.S. Merwin's "To the Book," "Ten Rules for Tea," "How to Dun a Deadbeat Book Customer," and quotes from James Carr and Oliver Goldsmith. Also features the Jane Lydbury engraving "Dr Donne's Devotions Disturb'd."
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 75147

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