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Welcome to the website and catalogue of The Old School Press. You can browse here then order via our online shop. Books in hand: Plates for a herbal. Pulls from some of the original copper engraving plates used for Morison's 17C Herbal, with expert commentary. Fables for a Despot. A dozen of Aesop's Fables for our current times. Recently published:
The book runs to twenty-four large pages, the text hand-set in 14pt Dante, and printed on a hand-made paper from Batchelor. The paper probably dates from the 1930s. It came originally from Oxford University Press, via Whittington Press who acquired the remaining stocks of OUP's hand-made papers when the Printing House closed.
The main text - the text of the mill's own description of its process for converting esparto grass into a high-quality paper - is set in Monotype Romulus, a favourite face at The Old School Press, with titles in Optima. The paper is Abbey Mill's Basingwerk Parchment.
THE OLD SCHOOL PRESS. An occasional newsletter about forthcoming books and events. September 2021. In this newsletter . . . progress on: Into the lagoon. progress on: Twelve poems from the Manyoshu. two events in 2021: in Ludlow and in Bath. progress on.
We have several 14pt founts in sufficient quantity to run to a decent number of pages: Octavian, Fournier, Caslon Old Face, Perpetua, Dante, and Hunt Roman in particular. Our booklets are always modestly priced.
Variant A will consist of the book together with about sixty Press letterpress ephemera in a clamshell archive box, plus a collection of ‘overs’ sheets from twenty-two past Press books in a further clamshell archive box, the two boxes held in yet another clamshell archive box. The price will be £220.
TheOldSchoolPress. @TheOldSchoolPress ‧. 9 subscribers ‧ 9 videos. We print and publish beautiful books using traditional letterpress technology and fine materials, all with a contemporary twist....
