PARENTHESIS 28: THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION. DELUXE EDITION

Oldham, England: Fine Press Book Association, 2015. hardcover, dust jacket, portfolio, slipcase. 4to. hardcover, dust jacket, portfolio, slipcase. 60 pages. Limited to 900 copies, of which this is one of 90 deluxe copies with a separate portfolio of nine printer's samples. Number 28. Includes articles, book reviews, biographical sketches of contributors. Color and black and white illustrations throughout.



Spring 2015 / Number 28 / Sebastian Carter, Editor





Editorial | Sebastian Carter

Chairmans letter | Martin Ould



Notes and news

The Wood Lea archive | John Wells

Enitharmon Editions | Stephen Stuart-Smith

A harried bibliography [Printing and the Mind of Merker] | Sidney Berger

Publishers Progress [The wood engravings of James Reid] | Robert Strossi

Jonny Hannah [The Cakes & Ale and Unsinkable Presses] | Dennis Hall

François Da Ros [Master of Art in typography] | Wilfried Onzea

Former print shops

The Woodlands Press | Hugh Macfarlane and Paul W. Nash

Peter Rutledge Koch [Surrealist cowboy and the making of the Codex Foundation]

Letterforms | Joey Hannaford



Exhibition Review

InsideOUT [Contemporary Bindigs of Private Press Books] | Colin Martin



Reviews

Loom | reviewed by Colin Martin

On Collecting Books and printing them too | reviewed by John Gray

Books Will Speak Plain | reviewed by Deborah Evetts

Fugitive Lyrics | reviewed by Colin Martin

Book Art Object 2 | reviewed by Crispin Elsted

Eric Ravilious: Artist and Designer and Ravilious: Wood Engravings | reviewed by Colin Martin

Pick Me Up | reviewed by the Editor

Books and journals in brief



Books Briefly Noted | Paul W. Nash



Contributors



A book at bedtime | Swithin Crumb.