Six a year. Set in metal, printed on a cylinder press, sewn by hand.You can feel the type in the page. The spine opens flat. The cloth wears in, not out. Read it, and then, for a change, keep it.
Pre-order the autumn listMetal type, inked, pressed into damp cotton paper. The letters sit in the page, not on it. Run your thumb across a line and you'll feel every word. That's what the paper is for.
This edition of Winter Harbour was set by hand in twelve-point Caslon, cast on the premises from the original matrices, with fourteen points of lead between the lines.
It was printed in an edition of eight hundred copies on Somerset 140 gsm mould-made cotton paper, on a cylinder press built in 1962 and rebuilt here in 2011.
The sheets were folded into sixteen-page signatures, sewn on tapes with linen thread, and bound in Ratchford blue cloth over boards, with the title blocked in black foil.
The paper was damped the night before printing. The ink was mixed by hand and will take three weeks to cure fully; the first hundred readers may notice.
Copies 1 to 50 are signed. Copies 51 to 800 are not, and cost the same.
Most books are made to be read once and forgotten on a shelf. Ours are made to be read once, lent, read again, and left to someone. The paper will outlast all of us; that's the point of choosing it.
A novel, a book of poems, and a walk. We publish what we'd want to own, which limits us to six a year, which is the right number for a press this size.
A shipping town, three winters, one lighthouse keeper who doesn't want the job. Set in Caslon. Blue cloth.
Forty poems, one a page, set in Bembo with room around them. Grey cloth, red endpapers.
A hundred and forty miles in nine days, with the photographs printed separately and tipped in by hand. Green cloth.
Everything happens in one room above a bookbinder. It smells of ink and hot metal. You can come and watch; the door's open on Thursdays.
All three for £120, posted as each is finished. Or any one. Subscribers to the year get all six, a place on the signed copies, and a Thursday at the press with tea.
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