and a year later . . .

For all sorts of reasons we have neglected this blog but having come to the realisation that aspects of our website are no longer functioning we shall endeavour to keep up with our friends here. Putting news and images on Facebook seems even more ephemeral – no...

Lady’s Smock

  We have been amazed at the profusion of Lady’s Smock all over the garden this year. Usually a clump here and there and a sprinkling all over. Not this time. Any ideas? Apparently it is loved by the caterpillars of the orange-tip which will account for the...

“Exquisite Editions” at The National Print Museum, Dublin

  Over in Dublin there is a very lively print museum where there are inspirational workshops for children and adults to learn about the creative processes involved in the making of a book surrounded by the type and presses collected together from letterpress...

enfolding . . .

   During much of 1997, a ‘studio’ was formed from a sheet of plastic lashed to a number of trees in a birch grove surrounded by fields at Catchmays Court and the sculptor, Matt Baker, could be found carving away for hours a day at a sizeable chunk of...

Iconic French poem translated with stunning images

    New Publication At the beginning of January 2015 we sent out a notice to those who have opted into our mailing list about this exciting book which brings the ground-breaking French poem by Blaise Cendrars to English readers in a translation by Dick Jones...

Shortlisted among the Glitterati Goliaths

    Surprises sometimes come in the daily welter of email – although  most is unwanted. Recently an email arrived telling us of the British Book Design and Production Awards 2014 – only a few days left to enter it said. Among the fifteen categories of...