THE OLD SCHOOL PRESS
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how
to order from us
Ordering
If you would like to buy or reserve any of the items listed, please use our order form, or write to The Old School Press, The Green, Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, BA2 7TJ, UK, letting us know what you would like. Postage, packing, and insurance are additional (unless otherwise stated) and charged at cost; items will be sent by the cheapest means in the UK, and by air mail abroad (at the printed papers rate where possible), unless you tell us otherwise. Trade discount is a quarter on one or two copies, a third on three or more, unless otherwise indicated. Measurements give the height first.
We welcome payment by PayPal from customers not paying in sterling : just let us know your email address when you place your order and we will confirm the total price directly with you before requesting payment through PayPal. Payment can also be made by a cheque drawn on a UK bank (for payments in UK£) or any US bank (for payments in US$), and by electronic transfer to our bank account. For payments in other currencies please contact us - we are very flexible! Unfortunately we cannot handle credit cards or sterling Eurocheques.
Please note that all prices and details are correct at the time of writing but may change before publication: planning and producing a book is a variable affair so please check on ordering. Prices published on this website take precedence over estimated prices on printed price-lists.
why not become a Subscriber of the Press?
Subscribing
By committing to
take one copy of each of our new publications you receive a 15% discount on the
price and 10% on past publications. There is no commitment to pay before publication, and you will also
receive the occasional ephemeral item. These items have included a copy of
An Italian Dream;
Three Pieces; a broadside with
the pochoired frontispiece (see left) from the Press's very successful
Venice
Visited accompanying a quotation from John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice
printed in 18pt Caslon (copies are available for purchase - see below); a 16pp booklet featuring an essay by
philosopher Ted Honderich,
Does the book have a future?, hand-set in 14pt Fournier, printed on a
hand-made paper and wrapped in blue Richard de Bas hand-made paper; and a set of tanka by James Kirkup entitled
On receiving a mysterious large parcel from The Old School Press, hand-set in
14pt Fournier and printed on fine papers.
we occasionally produce a poster or two
Posters for sale
We have three
broadsides available. (Please note that the following links take you to pictures
of the posters that are up to 400KB each. Each image arrives in its own window
which should be opened to the maximum size.) They are the poem
Vivienne at Rodmell from our
book Figures
in a Setting, together with its line-drawing; the pochoir frontispiece from our
book Venice Visited,
together with Ruskin's description of the same view; and the dustjacket
line
drawing from Tonge's Travels together with a quote from the diary. Each broadside is printed letterpress on a sheet
of hand-made Amalfi paper (49cm by 34cm, or 19in by 13.4in), and
looks splendid framed. They are £15, Euro25, US$30 each including p&p. You can
order via our contact form - see the button on the left.