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ILAB Library - All You Need To Know About Rare Books and the Antiquarian Book Trade
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[+] More Nigel Beale’s Interview with Jan and Crispin Elsted on The Barbarian Press
Published since 07 Mar 2012Writer, broadcaster and bibliophile Nigel Beale met Jan and Crispin Elsted in their home in British Columbia. The Elsted’s established Barbarian Press in 1977 in Kent, England. With three hand presses and many cases of type, the couple returned home to Canada in 1978 to set up shop in Mission about 50 miles east of Vancouver in the Fraser Valley.
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[+] More The Golden Cockerel Press - Audio Interview with Roderick Cave, by Nigel Beale
Published since 03 May 2011"The Golden Cockerel Press is one of most important, productive English private presses in the history of fine printing. In 2002 Oak Knoll Press and the British Library co-published the first extensive study of the Golden Cockerel. Written by Roderick Cave, the book is based on interviews and the Press’ widely-scattered archives." Nigel Beale met Roderick Cave at the British Library to discuss the achievements of The Golden Cockerel Press.
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[+] More Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press: A Checklist - An New Book By Matthew McLennan Young
Published since 25 Feb 2011Matthew McLennan Young is the author of Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press: A Checklist, the first comprehensive bibliography on this subject, which has recently been published by Oak Knoll Press. Andrew W. Tuer (1838-1900) was as one of the most influential printers of the Victorian period. With The Leadenhall Press he published hundreds of titles in almost every subject area, from sixpenny pamphlets to limited editions, periodicals like The Paper & Printing Trades Journal or The Printers International Specimen Exchange, Jerome K. Jerome's first book On the Stage - and Off and Sir Montague Shearman's Foot-Ball: Its History for Five Centuries. Matthew McLennan Young's outstanding work includes a portrait of Andrew Tuer and an annotated bibliography which lists nearly 450 publications by Field & Tuer and The Leadenhall Press from 1863 to 1913. For the Oak Knoll Biblio-Blog he has given an account of a post-publication discovery.
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[+] More Audio Interview with John Randle on the Whittington Press
Published since 24 Jan 2011"Born in the mind of John Randle at the age of 14 when he first entered his school’s press room, the Whittington Press started life in a disused gardener’s cottage in 1971. Its first book, Richard Kennedy’s A Boy at the Hogarth Press, was printed on weekends during 1971-1972 on an 1848 Columbian." An audio interview by Nigel Beale
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[+] More John Fuller and The Sycamore Press: A Bibliographic History
Published since 21 Jan 2011Set up in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. Operating from a garage, the press published established authors like W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin and Peter Porter and young poets like James Fenton and Alan Hollinghurst. "John Fuller and The Sycamore Press", edited by Ryan Roberts, is more than a full descriptive bibliography. It includes personal reflections by Sycamore Press authors and an interview with John Fuller. Editor Ryan Roberts has met publisher John Fuller to find out more details of his press. As Ryan explains, meeting in Fuller’s home in Oxford, the conversation was casual, an enjoyable time to learn the facts of the press straight from the publisher himself.
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[+] More Golden Cockerel Private Press
Published since 30 Dec 2009Ninety years ago in Great Britain a private press was started that the world had never seen before. The name - Golden Cockerel and the books were ‘British Hand-Made Limited Editions’.
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[+] More Biographies of the Key Figures Involved in the Doves Press
Published since 22 Dec 2009Marianne Tidcombe about the lives of Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, Harry Gage-Cole, Edward Johnston, John Henry Mason, Edward Philip Prince, and Emery Walker.
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[+] More Fine presses and the bookseller
Published since 30 Nov 2009The recent CODEX Foundation book arts festival and symposium The Fate of the Art: The Hand Printed Book in the 21st Century, or Kochfest as I like to call it, was by all accounts a highpoint for the fine press community. It provided a well-deserved spark to all who attended and participated, being the most significant event for the trade in many many years.