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THE OLD SCHOOL
PRESS
A full list of titles
published by the Press
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on the pointers for further details. Titles with red pointers are out of print. |
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Venice Approached (1991) |
An extract from
John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice.
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The Fruits of Jane Austen
(1993) |
Twelve extracts
from the books and letters of Jane Austen on the theme of fruit, with
wood-engravings by Simon Brett.
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Twelve Poems (1994) |
Twelve poems by
David Burnett with wood-engravings by Sister Margaret Tournour.  |
Punting to Islip (1994) |
A narrative poem
by Eddie Flintoff with linocut and wood-engravings by Simon Brett.
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The Phoenix (1995) |
A translation of
De Ave Phoenice by Eddie Flintoff, with pochoir by Peter Allen and
calligraphy by Alun Briggs.  |
Antigone (1996) |
A narrative poem
by Desmond Post, with wood-cuts by Inger Lawrance. |
Figures in a Setting (1996) |
Six poems by James
Kirkup, with line-drawings by John Watts. |
On Durham (1996) |
The last poem in
Old English, translated and introduced by David Crane, with a nineteenth-century
wood-engraving, and a line-drawing by Wendy Batt.
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Chesil Beach (1997) |
A poem by David
Burnett, with a wood-engraving by Christopher Wormell. |
tokonoma (1999) |
Twenty haiku and
tanka by James Kirkup, with wood-cuts by Naoko Matsubara. |
Venice Visited (1999) |
A dozen extracts
from the diary of Thomas Coryat, with pochoir illustrations by John Thornton.
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The Fell Revival (2000) |
An account of the
revival of Oxford University Press's Fell types since 1864, by Martyn
Ould and Martyn Thomas. |
TankAlphabet (2001) |
The Press's first
alphabet book featuring a collection of Japanese verses (tanka) by James
Kirkup. |
Lowlands Away (2001) |
An oratorio in ten
parts and pastel drawings by Adrian Henri. |
Tonge's Travels (2001) |
A Victorian travel
diary chronicling a ten-week journey round the Mediterranean, illustrated with
more than two dozen water-colours and line-drawings by John Watts. |
A Long Story (2001) |
A four-part
narrative poem by Andrew Motion with four wood-engravings by Simon Brett. |
Jump
of the Manta Ray (2002) |
A major new work
by Mexican poet Carmen Boullosa with photographic images by Philip Hughes. |
Stanley
Morison & 'John Fell' (2003) |
The forty-two-year
story of the writing and production of Morison's masterpiece John Fell, the
University Press and the 'Fell' types by Martyn Ould. |
Fedor
Tiutchev (2003) |
Translation by
Avril Pyman of fourteen poems by Russian poet Fedor Tiutchev with engravings by
Kirill Sokolov.  |
The Bricks of Venice (2005) |
A study of Venetian
brickwork in words and watercolours by Peter Harris. |
Harry Carter, Typographer (2005) |
A biographical
sketch and bibliography by Martyn Thomas, John A Lane, and Anne Rogers.
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Three Pieces (2005) |
Three hitherto
unpublished essay by Harry Carter, with an introduction by Martyn Thomas.
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Henry James Sat Here (2006) |
Nine poems on Siena
by Anne Coon, with images by Kurt Feuerherm. |
Oxford's Ornaments (2007) |
A survey of the
extant historical typographical ornaments at Oxford University Press by Martyn
Ould.
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An Italian Dream (2008) |
A chapter from
Dickens's Pictures of Italy in which he describes Venice. |
Palladio's Homes (2009) |
Palladio on building
a villa, covering thirteen of those he built. |
Winter Light (2010) |
The English country
house as we never see it, in watercolours and texts.
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The Daniel Press in Frome (2011) |
A domestic press in
Victorian England, and the forerunner of the Daniel Press in Oxford. |
Printing at the Daniel Press (2011) |
An analysis of Henry
Daniel's printing practices from a collection of press proofs newly discovered. |
The Colours of Rome
(2013) |
Decorative painter
John Sutcliffe on the pigments that give Rome its characteristic visual flavour. |
Stockholm Reflections
(2013) |
Modern and ancient
responses to the vibrant Stockholm waterfront, with digital images by Leslie
Gerry. |
Venice Approached
(2014) |
Ruskin's description
of travelling from Padua to Venice by gondola.
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Printing at the
University Press, Oxford, 1660-1780, volume I (2015) |
Volume I of the
first definitive narrative on work at one of the greatest of English presses:
'Premises, people, paper'.
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The Lost Colours of the
Cyclades (2016) |
A new study of
colour in the Greek islands by John Sutcliffe.
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Paper making by hand in
1953 (2017) |
A reprint of Barcham
Green's booklet on paper making at their Hayle Mill.
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Alchemy of the Planets
(2018) |
An artist's book,
with space-inspired images by Philip Hughes and poems by Carmen Boullosa.
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Aubrey's Villa (2018) |
A facsimile edition
of a manuscript by John Aubrey chronicling his plans for and loss of his family
home.
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Zapf and Stauffacher (2018) |
The story of a
collaboration between type designer Hermann Zapf and typographer Jack
Stauffacher.
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Printing at the
University Press, Oxford, 1660-1780, volume II (2018) |
Volume II of the
first definitive narrative on work at one of the greatest of English presses:
'Type'.
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Printing at the
University Press, Oxford, 1660-1780, volume III (2019) |
Volume III of the
first definitive narrative on work at one of the greatest of English presses:
'Process'.
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At nightfall on the
shortest day (2020) |
An evocative text by
Peter Davidson with a wood engraving by Paul Kershaw.
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Michael Burghers,
Oxford engraver (2020) |
A biographical note
on Oxford University Press's finest copper engraver, who worked around the turn
of the 18th century.
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Making paper at Abbey
Mills (2021) |
How paper was made
from esparto grass in the 1920s.
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Into the Lagoon (2021) |
The Venetian Lagoon
as seen by Leslie Gerry and E. V. Lucas.
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Only the printer knows (2023) |
The story of a book
that nearly never was.
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