THE OLD SCHOOL PRESS
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Forthcoming
Title
Palladio's Homes
will bring together the architecture, art, paper, and type of Italy in this new
slant on Palladio's domestic architecture in the 500th anniversary of his birth.
| The Old School Press prints and publishes new texts in limited editions with specially commissioned illustrations. We use traditional letterpress printing techniques - metal type and fine papers - and our books are hand-bound. | |
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The press has its home in the one-time school of the village of Hinton Charterhouse, just south of Bath, England. One of our books can start with a text, a paper, a typeface, or a medium of illustration. Where it finishes is never fully known until the sheets go to the binder! Our aim is always to find a combination of text, illustration, typeface, papers, and binding that makes a unified whole. Our books are generally illustrated with specially commissioned work from artists working in a variety of media which to date have included watercolour, linocut, wood engraving, wood cuts, line drawing, pastels, digital photography, and pochoir. There are many
highways and byways on this site. To get around use the buttons on the left. The
I occasionally prune my own collection of books
and printing ephemera and have some items for sale including a complete run of
Multiples |
If you are a
binder and like to obtain unbound sets of sheets you will find that we often
reserve a small proportion of an edition in sheets for binders and at a large
discount. Look for books with the
Martyn Ould |
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will take you to a guide.
sign,
which will tell you how many sections are involved, and click on the
button on the left for a list of books available in sheets.