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 The first is An Elegy for X, to be followed by an unpublished epic, Essay on Censorship, and then four essays around the topic of James Joyce.
Read MoreOver 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...
Read MoreIn 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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Read MoreA new collaboration with Chetham's Library results in an interesting new addition to the Incline lists. Aesop's Fables is a small illustrated chapbook including eight of the famous fables, with moral and 'remarks'.
Read MoreJanuary has always been a time of changes and new beginnings. This year, that means finally getting around to the website re-vamp we've been talking about since Google told us we weren't "mobile friendly" well over a year ago.
Read MoreOur new packet of Frost and Fir ornaments, designed by Elizabeth Friedlander, arrived today, expertly packed and safe and sound. For a quick packing tutorial read on!
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