Portraits of Presses. Photographs by Ski Harrison of Fleece, Gregynog, I.M. Imprimit, Old Stile, Rampant Lions, Rocket, Tern, Whittington & CTD; with commentaries by the printers by S. ; Whittington Press Harrison - 1997

Risbury: The Whittington Press, 1997 Book. Illus. by Photographs by Ski Harrison. Very Good. Hardcover. xi, [i], 53, [1] pages + plates and tipped in samples. Numbered 69 of the 500 copies printed. In the original paper covered boards with cloth spine. Spine fading. With the slipcase which has some fading also..

Whittington Press, Risbury, first de luxe edition, 1997. Limited edition of 27 specially bound copies with an additional portfolio of photographic prints of each press and signed by the photographer and all the printers, from a total edition of 500 (of which 350 were for sale). . 2 vols, quarter leather and patterned paper boards, 28 x 30 cm, ,. xi, 53 pp, [70] pp of plates ;separate portfolio of nine prints ( 1 per press) signe don the mounts by the photographer. The de luxe edition of this very attractively printed work. From a review by James Ferguson: "..Portraits of Presses, a remarkable new book published by one of the doyens of the business - John Randle of the Whittington Press in Gloucestershire. It gathers essays on a selection of British printers, illustrated with sets of black-and-white photographs taken by Ski Anderson. Anderson worked for more than two years at pictures of Albion and Heidelberg presses, platens, friskets and tympans, pressmen and presswomen and cases of old wooden… Read More