Simon Goode

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These gorgeous examples of decorated paper come from A Specimen Book of Pattern Papers Designed for and in Use at the Curwen Press (1928). While this paper most commonly would have been used as endpapers, Paul Nash explains in his introduction that he chose “pattern paper” as a more general term since this paper would also be used for book covers and jackets. 

The 31 samples included in this book range from florals reminiscent of wallpaper to bold modernist wood engravings. They were designed by artists Lovat Fraser, Albert Rutherston, Margaret Calkin James, Thomas Lowinsky, E.O. Hoppé, Edward Bawden, Paul Nash, Enid Marx, Eric Ravilious, and Harry Carter. 

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Ira setting type at LCBA

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We recently helped Nous Vous to print a linocut for the cover of their new edition. Cover printed in opaque white on the Vandercook SP-15 at London Centre for Book Arts, inner printed Risograph by Hato Press.

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New workshops just added to our calendar; including another session of Letterpress Nights held one night/week for four weeks in May, and Sewing Variations, a new workshop exploring different sewing styles in bookbinding. Take a look

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Ira Yonemura, 2014

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Poster Poem (Le-Circus)

Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1964

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Ocean Stripe Series 3

Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1965

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You - Me - Us

Ian Hamilton Finlay (with John Furnival), 1968

Openings Press, Gloucestershire

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So neat! 

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Bookbinding workshop at the London College of Printing, Back Hill, c.1960s

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Press room

London College of Printing, Back Hill

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Josef Albers, Color sheets and layout of the Never Before series, 1976. Metropolitan Museum.

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Yesterday, Nic from Nous Vous popped into LCBA to do some foil blocking for a special project.

There’s an interview with the group over at the Walker Art Center's blog about an amazing (and massive) illustration project they did for the Walker recently (detail pictured above). You can find the interview here.

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New bookbinding tools in the LCBA shop.

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We’re working on some letterpress prints at LCBA for our friends The London Bookshop Map.

If you don’t know already, The London Bookshop Map is a fantastic project that aims to support the diversity of publishing represented by independent bookshops in London. The London Bookshop Map is available for free at your local independent bookshop (and at LCBA). Each issue of the map includes a commissioned text-based work by contemporary artists. The current edition features work by Dora García.

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Book spine labels. Nice colours.