Our Sonnet for the Bodleian sells out in six hours!

Lucy Evans, Rare Books, blogged ‘the Bodleian Library collects 154 sonnets from presses around the world . . . ‘ “From close to home and further afield, from Oxford to Moonshine Road, California, to New Delhi and Llandogo, hand-press printers across...

Sir Peter Shaffer

The recent death of Sir Peter Shaffer had the inevitable effect here of reminding us of the making of our edition of EQUUS – in 2009. After all the labours of Clive Hicks-Jenkins in the making of the images and of ourselves in getting the book together, we were...

Rather pleased with ourselves!

  This photograph, actually taken some time ago by a visiting friend, does seem rather appropriate at this particular moment – as we have the immense pleasure of launching our new website. It became quite obvious some time ago that our old setup was no...

Lost and Found

  For a week or so in 1991, Rigby Graham was staying with us during the printing of his monumental book Kippers & Sawdust, helping me with the (to me utterly new and absolutely terrifying) arts of printing colour woodcuts. “Spread it on like strawberry...

Monkey Puzzle

For all of the thirty-odd years we have been living at Catchmays Court – and probably about 100 years before that – a wonderfully prominent feature of the landscape has been our massive Araucaria, Chilean Pine. It was a female tree at least 30 metres high...