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Cloth slipcase for Tom Chadwick published by Fleece Press 2012

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It’s Fine Press Friday!

Today we present a newly-cataloged publication from the Jerry Buff donation: The Yorkshire Dales A Further Selection, showcasing the original wood engravings of Marie Hartley, published and bound 1991 in quarter bookcloth and patterned paper over boards by Smith Settle in Otley, West Yorkshire, England in a limited edition of 268 copies signed by the artist.The text was set in Garamond type at Jonathan Stephenson’s The Rocket Press in Blewbury, Oxfordshire, and printed on Velin Arches mould-made paper by Simon Lawrence at his Fleece Press in Wakefield, West Yorkshire (todaylocated just slightly to the west in Huddersfield).

This publication is the second and final work to present the entire body of Harley’s wood engravings. Marie Hartley (1905-2006) learned her craft at Leeds College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Arts in London in the 1930s, and was especially interested in visually documenting her home in the Yorkshre Dales for numerous publications. Already in her mid-80s when these volumes were printed, Harley commented:

I have constantly appreciated the three different bindings, the arrangement of the blocks, the paper and the printing. The printing in particular reproduced the finest lines perfectly. Also, a small block which I had once printed in a repeat pattern was used to cover the book, thus giving the book a special unity. After all those years, suddenly the engravings were appreciated for themselves alone. I myself like best the ones with small figures, and also the tailpieces. To see one’s work so beautifully presented is very gratifying. The whole project has given me immense pleasure.

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Ravilious at War Fleece Press Two slipcases

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Gargoyles & Tattie-Bogles The lives and work of Douglas Percy Bliss and Phyllis Dodd. New book from The Fleece Press available from September exciting.....

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