st james park press
INSTITUTIONS AND EVENTS
The Press has printed the following items of ephemera for Institutions and related events.
SHAKESPEARE'S SONNET
Shakespeare’s Sonnet number 150 for the Bodleian Library. In 24pt and 36pt titling and 18pt Golden Cockerel type by Eric Gill, cast at the Caslon foundry in 1929 and first used in 1931 for the Golden Cockerel Press Four Gospels. The only extant founts since used from 1977 by the Rampant Lions Press, passing thereafter to the Historical Print Room at Cambridge University Library. The colophon set is 12pt Joanna, also by Gill. The illustration by Lettice Sandford printed from the binding brass used for the Golden Cockerel Press Song of Songs in 1936. Printed on an Albion Press at the Historical Print Room, on watermarked 130gsm Imitation Japanese vellum. Edition of 55 copies. Held in Bodleian Library box 2 marked ‘Rec.a.36’.
(2016)
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THE HOGARTH PRESS
Printed as part of the 27th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, at the University of Reading. The accompanying Virginia Woolf and Hogarth Press Centenary Exhibition, ‘Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press at 100’, held between June and August 2017 at the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading, at which this print was shown, celebrated the Woolfs and the Hogarth Press. Leanord and Viriginia Woolf hand-printed only 34 of 527 titles from their Hogarth Press. This poster was printed on an Albion Press in Dante on 310gsm Hahnemuhle German etching paper in an edition of 34 copies only, reflecting the Hogarth’s handprinted output, and featured giclee printed covers, printed at Electroset Studio in London (now Raw Canvas/ the studio of graphic designer Aaron Williams), emulating the original Hogarth Press marbled covered handmade editions.
(2017)
MOBY DICK
Extracts Supplied by a sub-sub Librarian, from Moby Dick, for the Bodleian Library, ‘Very like a Whale’ collaboration. Printed in handset Albertus types, with an original drawing by Garrick Palmer, never printed before and with the artist’s kind permission, on an Arab Press in blue and black. The polymer plate by Centurion Graphics. The artwork was taken from a sketchbook from 1971, where Garrick Palmer was sketching his very first ideas for the intended Folio Society edition of Moby Dick, which was eventually published in 1974. The sketchbook is held by the Press. The drawing used for the print was not in the final version of the Folio Society edition. The print was done in an edition of only 35 copies.
(2019)
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A SHOW OF HANDS
Printed as an homage to old-fashioned printing adverts, in this case for the first amateur printing press, from Holtzapffel. The brief was to utilise ‘printers hands’ and this advert plays on the terminology, referring to hand printing, leading on to be a printers helper, or hand. Set in a range of Victorian metal types. The poster formed part of an exhibition at Corsham Court between September and October 2019. The exhibition continued and the poster was shown again at Maggs Bros. Ltd in London between October and November 2022. Printed in an edition of 90 copies.
(2020)
MILTON'S COTTAGE
Printed for the Comus Circle of Milton’s Cottage. A folder containing an illustration printed from an early wood engraving of Milton’s Cottage in Chalfont St Giles, where Paradise Lost was completed in 1667. The cover, printed with Bold Script wood type in two colours, on 160gsm Canson Mi-Teintes Pearl. Printed on an Albion and Arab Press.
(2020)