It's always a reasonable aim to have a big new book for the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair, and not too much to aim for, either, since the fair only comes around every other year. So, of course we have a new book. Just that it's not big. In fact, it is clearly a new small book. At first Now Westlin Wind was going to be a miniature book, but the rules for miniature books are set, and our typeface was a tad too large so making the line a tad too long to make a decent miniature page, so we ended up with a small book instead.

Burgess was a Manchester man, and so we are blessed to have the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in the city which includes the great man's archive. Incline Press have the delightful job over the next few years to publish a uniform series of Burgess material from those archives. Andrew Biswell, director of the foundation and author of The Real Life of Anthony Burgess, is responsible for selecting the texts, and then we do the rest. The first is An Elegy for X, to be followed by an unpublished epic, Essay on Censorship, and then four essays around the topic of James Joyce.

Over the past couple of years particularly, a lot of ephemera has come from the Press. Too preoccupied with other matters to properly focus on the long and complex job of designing books, we have found in these single sheets a way to continue working. They can be developed in conversation, verified in proof, corrected, then printed all on the same day. There is something pleasing about this instant gratification! Thus we have continued to print...

In the past, we have opened our table on the Sunday morning with our jam on display, and though of course, we make the contents, we are really selling the labels in the situation that suits them best: on the jars. They are letterpress printed, of course, a different one designed for each season’s making, and they are as attractive as they are useful.

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