Spring has certainly sprung at Incline Press. Read more about our three latest publications, fairs and workshop life during spring 2023.
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Our latest publications including a new Robert Burns collection.
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This will be one of the printed pieces in the collection that comes with advance orders for Memento Mori : Memento Vivere.
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It’s taken a while, and although the book isn’t ready. the prospectus is.
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The Selkirk Grace is so called because Lord Selkirk paid for the meal; and that gives a nice twist of meaning to the last line! The other eight lines are recent, an addition from the poet Richard Medrington when reading the Grace for a Burns Supper several years ago. Found in the Scottish Poetry Library, so my thanks to him, and to them.
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I hold no interest in boxing; the very idea of two people being paid to beat each other up seems to me to be barbaric. It is an unfortunate fact of history that the boxers are usually impoverished, and their managers are rich. But this I have printed because Bill Richmond was the first black sporting celebrity in this country, and thus his tale is worth knowing.
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We have been printing a small pamphlet to Greet the New Year at Incline Press since we began in 1993, and this is the latest. I’ve not done . . .
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We asked Jane Audas if she would review the new exhibition of Enid Marx at the House of Illustration. Our thanks to her and to the House of Illustration for the photographs and the short video at the end.
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We’re back at Hay-on-Wye, this time for an play and a talk by Graham about producing the broadsheet shown here. Find out about our GDPR plans as well (there are dogs!)
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Our Summer Events are starting this Sunday (20 May 2018) with the St Bride Wayzegoose. We have other plans as well, Shipley Waysgoose on the 9th June and Leeds Print Fair the same day, when Alice Smith of Bracketpress will be running our table, then the House of Illustration’s Summer Fair on Saturday 30 June when we will also visit their new Enid Marx exhibition. We’ve done some Marco-related printing for their shop, if you are in the neighbourhood.
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While creating a keepsake for the recent exhibition at Ditchling, I realised that this is the eightieth anniversary of the Elizabeth typeface being completely available from the Bauer Foundry in Frankfurt.
A celebratory book was called for, so I turned to Pauline Paucker’s excellent New Borders, which we published in 1999 for some detalis of her life. We have a few sizes of Elizabeth type, a few of our 1999 magnesium plates and sourced some of her original Curwen patterned papers. The result is Elizabeth at Eighty offered at a pre-publication price until the end of June.
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We love a 'goose! Over the Easter weekend we took ourselves to Hay on Wye, where Emma Balch had organised a Wayzgoose in support of The Story of the Book, at 20 Castle Street, where she is preparing a book production study centre. Find out more below.
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It's always a reasonable aim to have a big new book for the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair, and not too much to aim for, either, since the fair only comes around every other year. So, of course we have a new book. Just that it's not big. In fact, it is clearly a new small book. At first Now Westlin Wind was going to be a miniature book, but the rules for miniature books are set, and our typeface was a tad too large so making the line a tad too long to make a decent miniature page, so we ended up with a small book instead.
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Burgess was a Manchester man, and so we are blessed to have the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in the city which includes the great man's archive. Incline Press have the delightful job over the next few years to publish a uniform series of Burgess material from those archives. Andrew Biswell, director of the foundation and author of The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, is responsible for selecting the texts, and then we do the rest. The first is An Elegy for X, to be followed by an unpublished epic, Essay on Censorship, and then four essays around the topic of James Joyce.
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Over the past couple of years particularly, a lot of ephemera has come from the Press. Too preoccupied with other matters to properly focus on the long and complex job of designing books, we have found in these single sheets a way to continue working. They can be developed in conversation, verified in proof, corrected, then printed all on the same day. There is something pleasing about this instant gratification! Thus we have continued to print...
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In the past, we have opened our table on the Sunday morning with our jam on display, and though of course, we make the contents, we are really selling the labels in the situation that suits them best: on the jars. They are letterpress printed, of course, a different one designed for each season’s making, and they are as attractive as they are useful.
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