An occasional newsletter about forthcoming books and events
 

April 2026

In this newsletter . . .

news about Pilgrimage Views

an event where we will be showing

a book from our backlist

Three copper plates from a celebrated travelogue of the late seventeenth century. An addition to our titles on place and the history of Oxford University Press.

We recently took all the materials for the book up to Ludlow Bookbinding and look forward to seeing the finished result which - aside from a dummy binding - is still only in our imagination.

For full details visit our website.

The edition will be limited to 70 copies. Price £195. Copies can be reserved now.

Sunday 10 May, 1100-1600
 

For many years we have been meaning to join in with the fun and this year we have finally made it. If you are in or near London come and join us. We will have some of our recent books on sale including Washi Memories and Plates for a Herbal, as well as posters and some ephemera.

There are full details here.

A book from our backlist

Last December we were in a small party visiting some of the major libraries in Rome and Venice, and enjoying the pleasure of handling some wonderful incunabula. As a side trip we visited (again) Villa Barbaro at Maser, one of the thirteen villas featured in Palladio's Homes, a book that was inspired by a trip we made some years ago visiting many of his villas in the Veneto.

One of the other villas we visited was Villa Godi, Palladio's first. Here's the opening from Palladio's Homes featuring Godi: Palladio's description in his original Italian on the left and an English translation on the right. In the centre is one of the illustrations we commissioned from Italian artist Carlo Rapp, a line drawing with linocut.

We recently had more copies bound up, again in the wonderful 'Cloudy Sky' cover paper from Cave Paper in Minneapolis.

For full details including a video showing much of the book, visit our website.

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