THE OLD SCHOOL PRESS
A full list of titles published by the Press
Click on the pointers for further details. Titles with red pointers are out of print.
An extract from
John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice.
Twelve extracts
from the books and letters of Jane Austen on the theme of fruit, with
wood-engravings by Simon Brett.
Twelve poems by
David Burnett with wood-engravings by Sister Margaret Tournour.
A narrative poem
by Eddie Flintoff with linocut and wood-engravings by Simon Brett.
A translation of
De Ave Phoenice by Eddie Flintoff, with pochoir by Peter Allen and
calligraphy by Alun Briggs.
A narrative poem
by Desmond Post, with wood-cuts by Inger Lawrance.
Six poems by James
Kirkup, with line-drawings by John Watts.
The last poem in
Old English, translated and introduced by David Crane, with a nineteenth-century
wood-engraving, and a line-drawing by Wendy Batt.
A poem by David
Burnett, with a wood-engraving by Christopher Wormell.
Twenty haiku and
tanka by James Kirkup, with wood-cuts by Naoko Matsubara.
A dozen extracts
from the diary of Thomas Coryat, with pochoir illustrations by John Thornton.
An account of the
revival of Oxford University Press's Fell types since 1864, by Martyn
Ould and Martyn Thomas.
The Press's first
alphabet book featuring a collection of Japanese verses (tanka) by James
Kirkup.
An oratorio in ten
parts and pastel drawings by Adrian Henri.
A Victorian travel
diary chronicling a ten-week journey round the Mediterranean, illustrated with
more than two dozen water-colours and line-drawings by John Watts.
A four-part
narrative poem by Andrew Motion with four wood-engravings by Simon Brett.
A major new work
by Mexican poet Carmen Boullosa with photographic images by Philip Hughes.
The forty-two-year
story of the writing and production of Morison's masterpiece John Fell, the
University Press and the 'Fell' types by Martyn Ould.
Translation by
Avril Pyman of fourteen poems by Russian poet Fedor Tiutchev with engravings by
Kirill Sokolov.
A study of Venetian
brickwork in words and watercolours by Peter Harris.
A biographical
sketch and bibliography by Martyn Thomas, John A Lane, and Anne Rogers.
Three hitherto
unpublished essay by Harry Carter, with an introduction by Martyn Thomas.
Nine poems on Siena
by Anne Coon, with images by Kurt Feuerherm.
A survey of the
extant historical typographical ornaments at Oxford University Press by Martyn
Ould.
A chapter from
Dickens's Pictures of Italy in which he describes Venice.
Palladio on building
a villa, covering thirteen of those he built.
The English country
house as we never see it, in watercolours and texts.
A domestic press in
Victorian England, and the forerunner of the Daniel Press in Oxford.
An analysis of Henry
Daniel's printing practices from a collection of press proofs newly discovered.
Decorative painter
John Sutcliffe on the pigments that give Rome its characteristic visual flavour.
Modern and ancient
responses to the vibrant Stockholm waterfront, with digital images by Leslie
Gerry.
Ruskin's description
of travelling from Padua to Venice by gondola.
Volume I of the
first definitive narrative on work at one of the greatest of English presses:
'Premises, people, paper'.
A new study of
colour in the Greek islands by John Sutcliffe.
A reprint of Barcham
Green's booklet on paper making at their Hayle Mill.
An artist's book,
with space-inspired images by Philip Hughes and poems by Carmen Boullosa.
A facsimile edition
of a manuscript by John Aubrey chronicling his plans for and loss of his family
home.
The story of a
collaboration between type designer Hermann Zapf and typographer Jack
Stauffacher.
Volume II of the
first definitive narrative on work at one of the greatest of English presses:
'Type'.
Volume III of the
first definitive narrative on work at one of the greatest of English presses:
'Process'.
An evocative text by
Peter Davidson with a wood engraving by Paul Kershaw.
A biographical note
on Oxford University Press's finest copper engraver, who worked around the turn
of the 18th century.
How paper was made
from esparto grass in the 1920s.
The Venetian Lagoon
as seen by Leslie Gerry and E. V. Lucas.
The story of a book
that nearly never was.
Photographs of the
papermakers of Kamikawasaki in Japan at work in the 1950s, with samples of their
papers, and commentary by Eleanor Burkett.
The creative work of
book artist Susan Allix, with a catalogue raisonee
A dozen love poems
translated from the Japanese.
A dozen of Aesop's
fables for our current times.
Pulls from five of
the original copper engraving plates used for Robert Morison's 17C Herbal, with
expert commentary.
Pulls from three of
the original copper engraving plates used for A Journey from Aleppo to
Jerusalem with commentary on the book and the thirteen engravings by
Burghers.
A dozen haiku by
Basho on the theme of winter.
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