Back from San Francisco!

Hi! This is Frances, for a change. You might get the idea from all the swans and sheep that life is rural and gentle at The Old Stile Press. However, this last month has been hectic and full of contrasts for me. First, the Works on Paper Fair at the Royal Academy...

How I wish this book was one of ours! . . . 3

This is one of the most entrancing books I have ever held in my hands. I put it like that because it is really is delicious to hold. It is smallish, as my comparison shows, but is by no means a miniature. It also delights in the tall format that has been a great...

Off she goes again!

As I write this, Frances is preparing to fly off to San Francisco. Indeed I am typing this so as not to get in her way for it is past the point where I can help. It is just a touch unkind of Fate that, on the one day we have to leave the house in the middle of the...

Jolly funny sheep!

Such a lovely morning here . . . I thought it would be fun to take a photograph (to be entitled “Sheep and swans may safely graze”) to point out the contrast between what I am doing and what dear, wonderful Frances is doing on her trip to London and the...