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REED CONTEMPORARY BOOKS reedcontemporarybooks.com Email: [email protected] Mobile: +44 (0)7515 884 206 To Have & To Hold 2021 Reed Contemporary Books, 1st Floor, 6 Chapel Row, off Queen Square, Bath BA1 1HN. Now extended to Saturday, 4th December 2021. Monday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm (closed Monday 29th November). By appointment. An exhibition of Fine Press, Private Press, Artists’ Books and Fine Bindings. C O P Y O A R R N T E M REED BOOKS * These exhibits are not currently listed on our website: please contact [email protected] if you wish to purchase Susan Allix Crocodile, 2021* Edition 14, 177 x 245mm Printed by handset letterpress with prints in etching, lino and archival inkjet.The papers are Zerkall, white and tinted green, also Tosa Shi and moulded green and silver dusted handmade Japanese sheets. Contained in a green linen covered handmade box with crocodile skin onlays. £400 Acanthus Etcetera, 2020 * Edition 12, 390 x 290mm 26 wild and cultivated plants, each in their own alphabetical section, are described in painting, drawing and print with short texts, each using a typeface and paper of the same letter. £3,200 Invisibility, 2019 * Edition 12, Vol. 1 250 x 200mm, Vol. 2 110 x 80mm, Vol 3. Invisible Aspects of Invisibility including obscurity, vanishing and ambiguity are presented in words and images.There are 15 prints and the book is hand set and printed in Optima and Spartan. In 3 parts with semi-transparent bindings, or invisible. £580 Artists’ Choice Editions Illustrating Alice, 2013 Edition 500, 310 x 206mm An international selection of illustrated editions of Lewis Caroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ and ‘Through the Looking- Glass’. The book is typeset in Breughel and printed on 150gsm Stowe Book White paper. £86 Kate Bernstein Uccello’s Formula II, 2016 Unique book, 330 x 480mm Bernstein has used all her knowledge and skills to produce two superb books which pay homage to the 15th-century artist Paolo Uccello. The three texts in this book are a description of ‘The Battle of San Romano’ and the commissioning of the paintings, Uccello’s formula and a variation on Vasari’s description of Uccello. £300 Uccello’s Woman, 2015 Unique book, 380 x 240mm Uccello’s famous triptych, The Battle of San Romano, has an all-male cast of characters. ‘Uccello’s Woman’ places the image of a woman centrally and considers what lies beneath, in front, and around the static image of an ideal woman. £195

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REED CONTEMPORARY BOOKS reedcontemporarybooks.comEmail: [email protected] Mobile: +44 (0)7515 884 206

To Have & To Hold 2021Reed Contemporary Books, 1st Floor, 6 Chapel Row, off Queen Square, Bath BA1 1HN. Now extended to Saturday, 4th December 2021. Monday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm (closed Monday 29th November). By appointment.

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Susan Allix

Crocodile, 2021*Edition 14, 177 x 245mmPrinted by handset letterpress with prints in etching, lino and archival inkjet. The papers are Zerkall, white and tinted green, also Tosa Shi and moulded green and silver dusted handmade Japanese sheets. Contained in a green linen covered handmade box with crocodile skin onlays.£400

Acanthus Etcetera, 2020 *Edition 12, 390 x 290mm26 wild and cultivated plants, each in their own alphabetical section, are described in

painting, drawing and print with short texts, each using a typeface and paper of the same letter.£3,200

Invisibility, 2019 *Edition 12, Vol. 1 250 x 200mm, Vol. 2 110 x 80mm, Vol 3. InvisibleAspects of Invisibility including obscurity, vanishing and ambiguity are presented in words and images. There are 15 prints and the book is hand set and printed in Optima and Spartan. In 3 parts with semi-transparent bindings, or invisible.£580

Artists’ Choice Editions

Illustrating Alice, 2013Edition 500, 310 x 206mmAn international selection of illustrated editions of Lewis Caroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures

in Wonderland’ and ‘Through the Looking-Glass’. The book is typeset in Breughel and printed on 150gsm Stowe Book White paper.£86

Kate Bernstein

Uccello’s Formula II, 2016Unique book, 330 x 480mmBernstein has used all her knowledge and skills to produce two superb books which pay homage to the 15th-century artist Paolo Uccello. The three texts in this book are a description of ‘The Battle of San Romano’ and the commissioning of the paintings, Uccello’s formula and a variation on Vasari’s description of Uccello.£300

Uccello’s Woman, 2015Unique book, 380 x 240mmUccello’s famous triptych, The Battle of San Romano, has an all-male cast of characters. ‘Uccello’s Woman’ places the image of a woman centrally and considers what lies beneath, in front, and around the static image of an ideal woman.£195

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In One Volume, 2021*Edition 12, 235 x 160mm (concertina ext. 540 x 210mm)Produced for the project Dante: Libri Nuovi – for the celebration of the work and life of Dante in this the 700th year since his death, is a multi-layered response to Dante’s Commedia and the translators and artists who have been inspired by it. With an interplay of abstraction and colour, which includes drawing after Botticelli, the heraldic red and silver of the Florentine Guelphs and text in the vernacular. The book has a three-part structure; a case binding with a leather tie closure contains a folio, within which is a concertina with a projecting central form that implies a book. The tie is printed with Cayley’s translation of Inferno, Canto V, in which Minos wraps his tail around a sinner, signifying to which circle of Hell he should be sent.£95

Sarah Bodman

Dinner and a Rose, 2021*Edition 500, 210 x 148mmSarah Bodman (image) and Nancy Campell (text) have created this artist’s book in homage to the novel The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the last Ripley novel’s publication. Digital print with silver detail on Nautilus Classic 135 gsm recycled paper.£10

Angie ButlerThe Object of Our Affection, 2017 *Edition 12, 200 x 285mmAs the pages are turned, three narratives reveal literary facts, anecdotes, and quotes about what books mean to us. The book informs its reader about how and why it - and other books - are constructed in this way. Various papers and inclusions of

other materials can be handled and relate to observations around language, text, paper and reading. £195

Fond Farewells, 2016 *Two volumes (His & Hers) – Edition His 16, 220 x 230mm; Hers 16, 160 x 150mmTraditional English words we say to each other on parting are printed on vintage handkerchiefs (His and Hers) folded into pages and bound with covers cut from old-fashioned dress and suit fabrics. A recognition that often favourite or well used words are disappearing alongside the passing of generations. Printed letterpress onto vintage handkerchiefs. Worsted and linen union fabric cover cut with pinking shears, machine stitched. £52

The Chevington Press

Barrack Room Ballads, 2012Edition 55, 300 x 400mmA selection from Rudyard Kiplings’ anthology compiled and illustrated by D. R. Wakefield. Printed by Bob Wakefield in the ‘indefatigable port and town of Goole in East Yorkshire’. The text is set in 12pt Baskerville and the title page in Perpetua. 7 etchings including the cover.£1700

Circle PressSedna and the Fulmar, 2017 *Edition 40, 305 x 310mmAn Inuit Myth with verse by Richard Price illustrated in blind relief by Ron King. Text set in Optima and printed letterpress on hand made Indian Khadi paper, unbound but contained in a card wrap-around and held in a blue folder and a canvas slipcase.£1,200

Corvus Works

Le Cimetière Marin / The Graveyard by the Sea, 2021* Edition 90, 325 x 250mmPaul Valéry’s classic poem recounting the cemetery in his hometown of Sète by the Mediterranean sea. Originally published 1920 in French, translation by C. Day Lewis. The languages are printed in parallel using Stempel Sabon types printed in black and blue. Royal Scottish Academy artist, Alfons Bytautas has created a special edition of four screen prints for this edition. Each

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Fine Press PoetryTAKK, 2020 *Edition 75, 260 x 275mm A collaboration between poet Michael Symmons Roberts and artist Jake Attree who have responded to Brughel’s painting ‘The Procession to Calvary’. £95, deluxe £140

70 Notices, 2021*Edition 50, 190 x 275mmCommissioned by Off the Shelf Festival to mark the 70th Anniversary of the Peak District as a National Park. Woodengraving of Kinder Scout by David Robertson, with ‘Notices’ by Simon Armitage. Printed using Dante type on Zerkall paper, quarter leather and linen binding by the Fine Book Bindery.£75

A Short Story of Falling, 2020 *Edition 75 standard, 26 deluxePoems by Alice Oswald, with metal engravings by Maribel Mas.Quarter leather binding with linen by the Fine Book Bindery£100 standard, £145 deluxe

Joy Division, 2017 *Edition 400, 410 x 297mm signed and numberedPaintings and drawings by Glenn Brown reference the meteoric risew of Ian Curtis and Joy Division with specially written text by Michael Bracewell and poet Lavinia Greenlaw. Printed in Germany, set in monotype Perpetua and Berthold Corporate, printed on 200 gsm Gardematt Art. Finalist in the 2017 British Book Design & Production Awards.£50

Empty New York II, 2018 *Edition 25, 228 x 300mmDeluxe edition with original photogravure signed and numbered by Duane Michals. In 1964 Michals began to document New York. Deserted stations, storefronts, interiors, funfares, arcades and diners feature in the deeply evocative black and white images. This is the city frozen in time. £495

printed in black, plus one colour: blue, orange and grey as double spreads to view and pasted onto a guarded leaf. The fourth in black only and tipped on following the title pages.£185 without slipcase, £30 for slipcase

Lee Cutter

An Inside Story, 2019Edition 99, 135 x 115mmThis book gives insight into the everyday of prison culture. Lee Cutter has written short stories and made meticulous carvings using prison soap that reflect on memories of his own experience of isolation. This book brings together photographs of each carving alongside its short story. Lee began making soap carvings, from prison-issue soap, when he was locked in his cell for 23 hours a day with no access to art materials. Covered and hand bound with fabrics inspired by prison bedsheets and visitation shirts, 218 pages, signed and dated by the artist.£60

Enitharmon Press

Talking About Aldo (by Jim Dine), 2008 *Edition 75, 370 x 290mm Jim Dine in conversation with Marco Livingstone recalls his friendship and working relationship with Aldo Crommelynck (1931 – 2008) the legendary printer of Matisse and Picasso, over a period of 30 years. Printed in New York on Hahnemuhle copperplate warm white paper with signed original etching by Jim Dine in a folder, held together in a slipcase.£650

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Venice Reflections, 2019 *Edition 120 regular, 20 deluxe29 colour plates with text by Jan Morris. Printed on Moulin de Gue with a UV flatbed digital printer. Deluxe Cloth bound in red with solander box. Regular casebound in cloth with slipcase. £ 1,450 regular, £2,800 deluxe

Venice Reflections (Miniature), 2019 *Edition 200, 77 x 50mm98 pages with full colour double page spreads printed on Somerset mould-made paper, in a threadless, cased zig-zag binding, in a cloth bound slipcase.£220

New York Reflections (Miniature), 2015 *Edition 80, 77 x 50mm88pp including: 56pp with 26 full colour double page spreads and 29pp of text set in 51½-point Caslon printed on Somerset mould-made paper. Case bound with a leather quarter binding in a cloth covered slipcase. £220

Marrakesh (Miniature), 2021*Edition 200, 77 x 50mm84 pages with full colour double page spreads printed on 190gsm Bockingford mould-made watercolour paper, concertina binding, case-bound with printed cloth covers in a slipcase. £220

Havana, 2017 *Edition 75, 480 x 320mm78pp, 25 full colour double page spreads printed on Somerset mould-made paper. Case bound in cloth with gigantic letters hot stamped onto the front cover, in a cloth covered solander box. £1,450

Havana (Miniature), 2017 *Edition 80, 77 x 50mm60 pages with full colour double page spreads printed on Somerset mould-made paper, in a threadless, cased zig-zag binding. A cloth bound slipcase. £220

Buile Suibhne, 2021*Edition 75, 265 x 170mmA retelling of the Irish Myth by poet Seán Hewitt complemented by wood engravings by Amy Jeffs. £100

Fleece Press

Tom Chadwick and The Grosvenor School of Modern Art, 2012 *Edition 210, 340 x 240mmTom Chadwick made a name for himself as a wood engraver in the early 1930s. Julian Francis’s well researched essay charts the life and work of this talented artist tragically killed in action at El Alamein at the age of 30 in 1942. 16 tipped-in wood engravings printed from the original blocks. Bound in quarter orange cloth and patterned paper covered boards housed in a linen slipcase.£320

Leslie GerryMarrakesh, 2021*Edition 80, 480 x 320mm96pp, 30 full colour double-spread illustrations, printed on 190gsm Bockingford mould-made watercolour paper with a 12-colour inkjet printer using archive

inks. Quarter-bound in leather and printed cloth in a cloth covered slipcase.£1,450

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Banana and the Sword, 2012Unique book, 115 x 270mmPen and ink on hanji paper.£1,500

Isobel Lewis

The Shipping Forecast, 2017 *Edition 15, 350 x 260 x 170mm 2017 marked the 150th anniversary of the Shipping Forecast. The names and terminology used in the forecast read like a poem. Using typography and imagery this book seeks to illustrate the forecast in a way that will resonate with seafarers on many shores. Contains, letterpress, linocut, halftone photographic images, collage and hand stitching/knots. Red cloth clamshell box housing 32 page book, each one bound using vintage nautical charts.£495

A Sailor Went To Sea, 2019 *Edition 5, 20 x 60 x 55mmChildren’s nursery rhyme and clapping game illustrated with vintage sea creatures. Blue cloth clamshell box sealed with a gold wax anchor. Concertina binding. Letterpress printed in black and gold ink. Decorative backing paper.£150

leaf to rear. Housed in a custom-made clamshell box with gilded and screen-printed labels in Chinese and English. The wraparound case is of gilded and inked boards with a pierced black goatskin overlay and black goatskin doublure.£3,575

Incline Press

The Charm of Magpies * Edition 160, 370 x 260mmThe heart of the book is the ten two-colour linocut prints by Nick Wonham, the illustrator. Each one 8 x 6 inches, their bold, dense colours add to the edgy feel of the images. These accompany and face the traditional and childlike verse woven through the book. Hand set in Monotype Bemb from 24 to 72 points in size. The numerals are Winchester 30-line woodtype from Stephenson, Blake. The paper is 170gsm Zerkall. Bound with a cloth spine and printed paper over boards with specially printed flyleaves by Roger Grech at his Papercut Bindery. Signed by the artist.£95

Ravikumar Kashi

Too Late, 2008Unique book, 250 x 355mmThis book from the series titled ‘Up Close’ is described by the artist as a sort of diary, where text, images, drawings and doodles come together in an informal way. The text is in both English and his native tongue, Kannada. Moulded paper with imbossed text, printed photograph, original writing and drawing. £850

Kate Holland

Doors of Perception, 2015Unique binding, 185 x 120mmThis book is unique and combines the work of a famous author with the work of a fine binder. Photographs have been printed in black onto alum tawed calf and overlaid with sunken onlays of gold and orange neon leather. The endpapers are of photographs printed on to watercolour paper, with watercolour wash laminated with Japanese tissue. All edges are gilt with neon splatter. It has hand-sewn silk headbands and comes in a custom-made drop-back box.£2,200

Nine Dragons, 2017 *Edition 5, 152 x 217 x 29mmMade for the 2017 Designer Bookbinders International Competition. Based on the ancient Chinese myth of the nine dragons who are manifestations of the Dao, the central truth of Taoist philosophy, the creative forces of Nature that appear for a moment then vanish in mystery. The images are based on a 13th century scroll by the Taoist Chinese painter Chen Rong. Print no.1 was awarded the Highly Commended Silver prize.Accordion book of 10 gilded and screen-printed boards with hand painted watercolour, gouache and acrylic overwashes and 23c gold, applied metal

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on Zerkall 170 gsm paper. Soft cover with thermograph title, bound with an alternative Japanese stab-stitch. Contained in screen-printed soft case. £40

De La Warr Pavilion, 2019 *Edition 25, 235 x 235mmThe story of the building of the Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea. Illustrated with original linocuts, with letterpress text on 170 gsm Zerkall paper. Screen printed soft cover and case. Stitched and bound by hand. £75

Russell Maret

Roma Abstract, 2017Edition of 116, 400 x 300mmRussell Maret recreates the alphabet into new geometric symbols, borrowing from Greek, Etruscan, and Roman alphabetical marks. ‘Roma Abstract’ collects his ‘monumental forms’, using translucent paper to give each letter a communal and layered dimension with the context of its neighbours.£470

two wood-engravers, Miriam Macgregor, who has lived and worked in Whittington for many years, and the American artist, Abigail Rorer, who has got to know St Bartholomew’s Church through regular visits to the Whittington Press at Whittington Court which abuts the church. Set in 14pt Van Dijck by Neil Winter and printed by Patrick Randle at Nomad Letterpress in Whittington on Zerkall mould-made paper. 24 wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor and Abigail Rorer. Introduction by Giles Browne. Contained within a slipcase.£135

Sue MacLaren: Verso Press

Tree, 2021*Edition 10, 250 x 220mmOriginal photographs printed on Zerkall 170 gsm paper overlaid with letterpress text on 25 gsm mulberry paper. Hardback with Japanese binding: hardback with Japanese stab-stitch. £75

Darklands, 2019 *Edition 25, 270 x 120mmTipped in original photographs with text letterpressed in ten-point Gill Bold printed

She Sells Sea Shells, 2019 *Edition 10, 14.5 x 14.5 x 17mmOld tongue twister text, letterpress printed in gold ink. Concertina binding. Pages cut to resemble a wave pattern. Reverse hand decorated with gold ink. Pale blue cloth binding lined with decorative paper and fastened with a belly band.£175

The Lone Oak Press

The King of the Alps, 2011Edition 60, 285 x 170mmThe full title is ‘On the Hunt for the KING OF THE ALPS A Plant Deemed Worthy by REGINALD FARRER’. The plant in question is Eritrichium nanum, which British plant explorer Reginald Farrer (1880 –1920) called the ‘King of the Alps’. Artist and plant lover Abigail Rorer has woven together the text for this exquisite book from Farrer’s description of Eritrichium nanum in his two-volume set The English Rock Garden (1918), and from his My Rock Garden (1907) and Among the Hills (1911). Set in 14pt Monotype Van Dijck by Michael & Winifred Bixler and illustrated with seven multi-colour wood engravings by Abigail Rorer. The typography is by Michael Russem who did the printing of the text on Zerkall papers. The binding was designed by Daniel Gehnrich and carried out by Amy Borezo. Bound in paper and leather over boards and in a case. Signed by Abigail Rorer.£500

St Bartholomew’s Church, Whittington, 2015Edition 300, 183 x 23mmThis is a celebration of a small English village church. It is a collaboration between

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Disruption, Devotion + Distributism, 2020 *Special edition 8, 245 x 167mmPublished to celebrate an exhibition of St. Dominic’s posters at Ditchling Museum. Printed on the museum’s Stanhope press. Engravings by David Jones printed from the original blocks. A portfolio of 7 prints accompanies this numbered (III) edition in a slipcase.£450

The Old School Press

Into the Lagoon, 2021*Edition 50, 280mmThe islands and towns of the Venetian lagoon in 1914 with images by Leslie Gerry.£290

Palladio’s Homes, 2009Edition 170, 365mmAndrea Palladio on building a home, and what others have thought of those that he built, illustrated by Carlo Rapp.£250

Hole papers. The images were all printed on Zerkall paper. A foldout map of the lake, engraved by Schanilec, was printed on handmade Japanese kozo paper, and 30 ‘text figures’ of fish were printed from the original electrotypes by Thaddeus Surber. The books were bound and boxed at Booklab II.£5,000

Bokeh: A Little Book of Flowers, 2020 *Edition 119, 140 x 210mm8 multicoloured wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec with poems handset in Polipholis, Bembo and Blado types. Bound at Booklab 2 by Marc Hammond, Keri Schroeder and Craig Jensen.The third book in a trilogy documenting one man’s struggle with the reality of getting old. After a quarter of a century living in the rural Midwest he moves to the city where he observes the isolation of urban life and the tenacious existence of the plants, birds and animals living there – a roster of beings that includes himself. Winner of the FPBA Collector’s Prize at the 2020 Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair.£575

A Little Book of Birds, 2017 *Edition 100, 153 x 215mm9 multicoloured wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec and a wood engraving by Thomas Bewick, all printed from the original blocks. Signed by GS, with a slight poem by him hand-set in Bodoni. The duplex paper covers are made of Degener Black and O’Mally Crackle papers, in tribute to the Ladies of the Cave.£500

Nomad Letterpress2020 Vision, 2020 *Edition 340, 345 x 260mm20 current wood engravers describe and feature a work beside their creative influence. Set in Perpetua and printed by Anna Parker and Pat Randle at Whittington on Zerkall paper. 200 numbered and bound in printed papers with cloth spine by Roger Grech. Slipcase.£195

Some Problems with Red, 2016Edition 100Five short texts about the difficulties of describing and reproducing colour, each of which is paired with an illustration. As the title suggests, the book is a whimsical project that grew out of RM’s ‘General Color Theory’ in ‘AEthelwold Etc’. Printed on Zerkall paper, bound by Craig Jensen, and housed in a plexiglass slipcase. Signed by the artist.£320

A Pattern Book of Cadiz Ornaments, 2020 *Edition of roughly 90, 160 x 235mmPatterns made from 2 metal pieces engraved and cast by Ed Rayher at Swamp Press printed in multiple colours on a variety of vintage hand and mould made papers Housed in an acrylic slipcase.£265

Midnight Paper SalesLac Des Pleurs – Report from Lake Pepin, 2015Edition 100, 380 x 255mm This hymn is a loving exploration of the lake by the extraordinary American wood-engraver, Gaylord Schanilec. Dubbed the ‘Lake of Tears’ by Louis Hennepin in 1680, it is the widest naturally occurring part of the upper Mississippi River. The text is a collection of writings on passages through the lake by many authors, an introduction by Patrick K. Coleman, and image captions and an epilogue by Gaylord Schanilec. It is hand-set in metal type and printed by and on vintage Barcham Greene and Wookey

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foundry types, in black, white, tiger-lily, and light cyan-blue inks, each colour printed in separate print runs. Printed on smooth white Zerkall watermarked paper 145gsm, with colour Zerkall Ingres paper for the texts, and grey plain Mitientes endpapers. Sewn by Roger Grech and soft-covered in a BFK Rives dust wrapper featuring a printed red cross on front. Featuring four wood-engravings by Jane Randfield, printed from the blocks. Jane is a prize-winning member of the Society of Wood Engravers and a commercial illustrator. £225

On the Birmingham School of Art, 1940 (by Eric Gill), 2018 *Edition 100, 210 x 145mmThis edition contains a previously unpublished report on the Birmingham School of Art School, written in 1940 by the preeminent typographer and craftsman of his time, Eric Gill. A modern exponent of that same movement, John Randle of the Whittington Press, has especially written an Introduction briefly assessing the report. Printed on an Albion Press. Set in 12pt Joanna and 18pt Golden Cockerel foundry type cast by Caslon, being faces that were both designed by Gill. Printed on 175gsm Somerset Book paper. Bound by the Fine Book Bindery in bamboo boards and leather-back, recessed to ensure the leather backs sit flush with the boards, which are laser engraved on front and rear by Thomas Mayo. The laser-engraved front cover board was taken from a unique pencil rubbing done by Gill on thin tissue paper, on which he also wrote and signed, ‘Incised & coloured on cover of “Red Wise”. £175

the northeast of England it is witty and insightful, describing Sunderland’s rivalry with Newcastle, the moods of its people, the Stadium of Light with its shared love of football, and the wide, open, skies of its coastline. The original artworks were re-produced using silkscreen and were hand coloured.£550

Reed Contemporary Books

Glory, Azure, and Gold: The Stained Glass Windows of Thomas Denny, 20203rd edition 300, 300 x 240mmThe first book published by Reed Contemporary Books, this is the first book about the work of Thomas Denny (b. 1956) whose radiant windows are to be found in the Cathedrals of Durham, Gloucester and Hereford, as well as in many parish churches across England. With a foreword by the Very Reverend Michael Tavinor, Dean of Hereford, and the introduction by Patrick Reyntiens, the book has eleven essays and a poem each on a different window. Rowan Williams has contributed the poem on the window in St Catharine’s College Chapel, Cambridge. £25

St James Park Press

King Arthur: Excalibur, 2020 *Edition 65, 254 x 165mmPrinted on an Albion Press, in hand-set 14pt Dante, with titling in various sizes of Dante, as well as Saxon Black, Legende and Edina

The Lost Colours of the Cyclades, 2016 *Edition 135, 315mmA new study of colour in the Greek islands by John Sutcliffe, with paint samples and recipes.£185

Alchemy of the Planets, 2015 *Edition 50, 315mmPoems by Carmen Boullosa and digital paintings by Philip Hughes inspired by images from interplanetary space missions.£1,900

QoD Press

SUNDERLAND GIG, 2021*Edition 26, 230 x 380mm, each book is uniqueSUNDERLAND GIG is a collaboration between John Strachan, Professor of English and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Bath Spa University and Professor Michael Pennie (d. 2019) artist, sculptor and teacher. Combining poetry and images referencing

G L O RY, A Z U R E & G O L DThe Stained-Glass Windows of Thomas Denny

Thomas Denny (born London 1956) studied Painting at Edinburgh College of Art.He completed his first stained-glass window in the Church of Scotland Kirk at Killearn, Stirlingshire in 1983; since then he has received over 40 commissions. His windows can be seen in Gloucester, Hereford, Durham and Leicester Cathedrals as well as in many of England’s finest Abbeys, Chapels, Churches and Minsters. This fully illustrated book, with eleven essays and a specially written poem by Rowan Williams, is the first to feature the work of this important 21st-century stained-glass artist whose painterly narrative windows take their inspiration from scripture, history, music, poetry and from the English landscape.

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The Chapel, 2013 *Edition 45, 160 x 120mmA poem by George Miller about the customs of the Printers Chapel from 1833, this is one of 40 copies printed on Zerkall paper.£35

Verdigrís EditionsOde to a Chestnut on the Ground, 2013Edition of 50, 130 x 330mmTaken from ‘Selected Odes’ by Pablo Neruda (translated by Margared Sayers Peden) this rich volume is a collaboration between the American artist/printmaker Judith Rothchild and the English printer Mark Lintott. Together they produce small finely printed editions of classical texts and contemporary poets in their studio in rural France close to Montpellier (where they also grow and tend vines). Three original mezzotints and embossments by Judith Rothchild printed on Hahnemülhe paper with a screenprinted cover. Handset letterpress by Mark Lintott who also made the slipcase. Signed by Judith Rothchild and Mark Lintott.£700

Fig, 2001Edition 48, 285 x 270mmD.H. Lawrence’s poem is accompanied by Judith Rothchild’s handprinted five deep dark fruity mezzotints and four extravagant leafy screenprints on Hahnemühle paper. Letterpress, hand set in Vendôme, printed on an Albion, and a Stanhope press by Mark Lintott. The wrappers, in Somerset Velvet Black paper, and slipcase were screenprinted by the artist.£700

Christine TacqSleepwalking Through Trees, anthology for those born later, 2004Edition 55, 400 x 330mm A book of intaglio and relief prints. Works by William Blake, Brian Patten, Cicely Herbert, Ben Jonson, Minou Drouet, Margaret Atwood together with a Poem from Japan and the Corpus Christi Carol with layered images based on familiar trees, and blind embossing. Printed on Somerset Velvet mould-made rag paper with seven full page etchings and four small ones, with soft-ground etched colour printed overlays and small collagraph printed areas, bound in screen-printed linen canvas. Signed and numbered.£700

Tudor Black Press

The Blessed Damozel, 2020 *Edition 40, 264 X 175mmThe Blessed Damozel by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, from the original 1850 version, one of the 35 copies printed on Somerset Book paper, quarter bound in vellum with handmade paper to the boards, in a slipcase. £145