Garden Relicts
by Bert and Molly Eastman
Bert and Molly Eastman's cottage garden has a timeless air. The soft pinks and purples of hollyhocks, the fresh green lettuce leaves, and, of course, a profusion of roses all look as if they've been there for centuries. Only the swaying silvery cd's planted to keep the birds from the new peas tell you that you're in a twenty-first century garden. So it is no surprise that every push of the spade turns up relicts from the past. From a small Victorian doll to bottles and bits of brightly coloured pot, the garden reveals a tangible link to those past times. Bert and Molly's text along with Bert's copper relief etchings and linocuts trace the history of their garden through the finds turned up by the gardener's fork.
£60 including UK postage. Find out more about the book.
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Burin, Box & Board: ![[Chaucer]](chaucer.jpg)
Lennart Forsberg
Featuring the wood engravings, multi-coloured wood cuts and linocuts
of the graphic artist Lennart Forsberg, Burin Box and Board is
one of Incline Press's most innovative designs. Working with the
principles of asymmetrical typography, the book's clear aqua titling
and soft grey text allow the the black and white wood engravings
to take centre stage.
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A Paper Snowstorm
Toni Savage & the Leicester Broadsheets
by Rigby Graham and Derek Deadman
Ever since the early 1960s, the private presses of Leicester and the surrounding county have attracted particular attention for their remarkable booklet and broadsheet publications. At the centre of these exploits was Toni Savage -- one-time opera singer, folk-club enthusiast and printer extraordinary -- an active inspiration to many potential printer-publishers in the waning days of commercial letterpress.
This book is his story as told by several of his contemporaries: Alan Brignull, Duine Campbell, Rigby Graham & Cynthia Savage, with examples of printed work as the main illustrations. The book includes a complete listing of all the broadsheets issued with Leicestershire imprints to the end of 2004, compiled by Derek Deadman. Seventy-three pages, it is illustrated throughout with more than 35 facsimiles tipped onto the pages, as well as woodcuts, engravings, line drawings and photographs of the printers at work. In a folder within the book's slipcase are ten original Leicester Broadsheets: five Phoenix Broadsheets from the press of Toni Savage and at least one each from Alan Brignull, Derek Deadman, Hans van Eijk, Rigby Graham and Cynthia Savage.
Printed from metal type with a Victoria Platen Press, the text is set in Bembo on Magnani mould-made paper and bound in the workshop of Stephen Conway. An edition of 200, the book is 14 x 10 inches, printed paper over boards with a cloth spine and comes in a patterned paper and cloth slipcase. The price is £168 including post and packing.