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'The Demi-Griffin Descant" — Conant Brodribb
Conant Brodribb produced 59 issues of his 'Demi-Griffin Descant' between 1980 and 1997. It started as an...
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Uploaded on Feb 27, 2012
"Christopher Cat's Commentary" — Kenneth Hardacre
Kenneth Hardacre's Kit Cat Press is better known for his exquisitely printed booklets of poetry but he had...
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Uploaded on Feb 26, 2012
Eric Webb of the Parlour Press
Mr Webb the teacher referred to in 'Switch On' www.flickr.com/photos/alan98/248 3561610 was Eric 'Spider'...
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Uploaded on Feb 26, 2012
"The Cemetery Rabbit" of Vic Moitoret
One of the amateur journals recorded by Arthur Harris in his 'Interesting...
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Uploaded on Feb 25, 2012
"Interesting Items" from Arthur Harris
It's jubilee year here in Britain and there's been a lot of reminiscence back to 1952. By coincidence last...
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Uploaded on Feb 21, 2012
Model 3 platen ink disk pawl
For PointFive-5, who has a press with a bit missing —...
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Uploaded on Feb 12, 2012
Early Greens?
I can't remember where this little card came from but it has intrigued me for years. It's printed...
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Uploaded on Jan 10, 2012
Greetings from Adanaland!
A seasonal Cinderella to wish a Merry Christmas to all our readers. Printed from Adana metal stock block, 10pt type and tiny linocuts on an Adana 8-5.
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Uploaded on Dec 24, 2011
Pyramids and Palm Trees?
A repeat pattern made out of the design on blairdashpb's old fabric printing block. Do you think it would...
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Uploaded on Dec 21, 2011
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Curved Plastic Quoins
As noted before, Stephenson Blake's curved plastic quoins are a way of setting a block of text or picture...
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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2011
You what?
I bought some envelopes, and on the back of the plastic wrapper there was a plain white sticker obscuring...
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Uploaded on Dec 10, 2011
The LETTERKIT© Book
Remember the days before DTP? This book of cut-out letters on gummed paper was printed by Letterkit of...
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Uploaded on Nov 30, 2011
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The LETTERKIT© Book
Remember the days before DTP? This book of cut-out letters on gummed paper was printed by Letterkit of...
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Uploaded on Nov 30, 2011
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French chalk labels
Two old chemist's labels from paper packets of French chalk. These were acquired with a collection of...
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Uploaded on Nov 28, 2011
OM
The other day I absent-mindedly tried to rinse a brush full of printing ink and white spirit in a jam jar...
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Uploaded on Nov 15, 2011
Set up and ready
And here it is in Oxford, all set up just before opening time, ready for the fairgoing public. Looking at...
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Uploaded on Nov 7, 2011
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Getting ready for the Book Fair
A dummy run assembling my display for the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair next weekend, 5/6 November. If...
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Uploaded on Oct 29, 2011
Georgia, 1919
For the most part I am not a proper philatelist, just a hoarder of pretty stickers. However I am...
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Uploaded on Oct 23, 2011
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