Pages from Press I (2006) Whittington Press

A series of photos from the 'A' (deluxe) edition of PFP I are attached below. There are three components: the clamshell box with red leather label, the book itself with full red Oasis goatskin binding containing brief text and a series of private press pages tipped in and the separate portfolio for six additional (choice) pages. The two pages shown below are both from the Kelmscott Press - The Sundering Flood and The Earthly Paradise/The Lovers of Gudrun.

Thanks for the pictures. I had a copy of this a few years ago and I flipped it. Took me a while, but I have since regretted it.

Of all the kinds of books that Whittington does well, it's their bibliographic, historical ones like this that I enjoy the most. The selection of leaves in the portfolio is very generous, particularly the one from Doves, which I would never have seen outside a special collections library.

Thanks again, oracle!

>2 DenimDan:

If you think the selection of loose leaves in the PFP I "A" edition is "very generous", it pales by comparison to the forthcoming edition of Pages from Presses II (see link). This will be the final letterpress edition from John and Rose Randle's Whittington Press and it is being seen to completion by their son Pat Randle (Nomad Letterpress). The "A" edition will have 27 tipped-in leaves from seven different British private presses in operation during the inter-war years AND it will also have a separate portfolio box with additional leaves. I contacted Pat Randle earlier in the year and tentative plans are to include an addition 32 or 33 loose leaves in the separate portfolio box - a total of 59 or 60 individual leaves in the "A" edition!! It took editor David Butcher fifteen years to accumulate these individual leaves and it is highly unlikely anything like this will be done again. Despite a steep pre-publication price tag of 2750 GBP = $3750 USD at time of announcement on the Nomad Letterpress website, the "A" edition sold out within one week.

https://www.nomadletterpress.com/pagesfrompressesvolume2

Oh my, I had no idea about this part II. Frankly, $4000 seems like an incredible value for this kind of offering, especially with David Butcher involved.

This is what I get for failing to follow active private presses for a while!