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Manuscripts for additional information.
The Old Stile Press has been at the forefront of the British private press movement
for over twenty-five years. It is particularly notable for the freedom it gives
artists to respond to texts written by such authors as Oscar Wilde, George Mackay
Brown, W.S. Graham and others.
The collection traces the progress of more than fifty titles from the project's
inception, through galley proofs of type, to printing, binding and distribution.
Also included are records which document the processes of hand-printing and
publishing as pursued by Frances and Nicolas McDowell, as well as lengthy and
detailed correspondence with creative individuals from the worlds of literature and
the visual arts in addition to suppliers of paper and binding supplies.
Correspondence relating to projects begun but abandoned; ephemeral printing; and
records relating to the financial operation of a press offer a view into the broader
community of private press printing in Britain during the second half of the
twentieth century.
Old Stile Press mss., 1989-2009
Box 1
Brockway, Harry,
Faithful John,
correspondence, production material
Fryer, Katherine,
Before the War & Long
Ago,
correspondence, production material, research
Graham, W. S. & Thomson, Douglas,
Letters
& Heads,
correspondence, production material,
research
Foa, Maryclare,
The Dream Song of Olaf
Asteson,
correspondence, production material
Bayliss, Keith,
White Voices,
correspondence, production material
Box 2
Sutton, Philip, Correspondence, production material,
research
Gross, Philip,
The Abstract Garden,
correspondence, production material, research
Box 3
Strachan, Geoffrey,
Masks,
correspondence, production material, research
Box 4
Barnfield, Richard,
Sonnets,
correspondence, production material
Box 5
Correspondence, 1996-2006
(multiple folders; majority Christmas/holiday cards)
Box 6
Harrop, Dorothy,
Bibliography of The Old Stile
Press
Isaac, Bert,
The Landscape Within,
correspondence, production material, research
Isaac, Bert,
For Books That Never
Were,
production material
Box 7
Wilde, Nicolas,
The Flute of Sardonyx,
correspondence, production material
Tanner, Robin,
The Last Poems of Alice
Meynell,
correspondence, production material
Elwyn, John,
House of Leaves,
correspondence, production material
Box 8
Tanner, Heather,
The More Angels Shall I
Paint,
correspondence, production material
Tanner, Heather,
Ten Clerihews,
correspondence, production material
Tanner, Heather,
A Country Alphabet,
correspondence, production material
Tanner, Heather & Robin,
A Country Book of
Days,
correspondence, production material
Box 9
Kiggell, Ralph,
Leading the Cranes
Home,
correspondence, production material, research
Box 10
Double Crown Club, correspondence, production material
Miscellaneous private presses, correspondence, production
material
Pisces Press, correspondence, production material
Ridler, Vivian, correspondence
Fleece Press, correspondence, production material
Black Pennell Press, correspondence
Chambers, David, correspondence
Partridge, Walter & The Perdix Press, correspondence, production
material
Rampant Lions Press, correspondence, production material
Paulinus Press, correspondence, production material
Rocket Press, correspondence, production material
Libanus Press, correspondence, production material
Whittington Press, correspondence, production material
Box 11
Duke Bluebeard's Castle, production
material
Hardy, Thomas.
Green Blades,
correspondence, production material
Taliesin & the Mockers,
correspondence, production material
Black Marigolds, correspondence,
production material
Box 12
Krol, Abram, correspondence, production material
L, general correspondence
Livay, Yaron, correspondence.
Lloyd, Noel, correspondence
M, general correspondence
Mc, general correspondence
MacKenzie-Kerr, Ian, correspondence
MacNeill, Alyson, correspondence
Mould Type Foundry, correspondence
McLean, David, correspondence
Marsh, Leonard, correspondence
Mountfield, Julian, correspondence
Morgan, Robert, correspondence
Marsh, Jan, correspondence
Mitchell, Benard, correspondence
Moore, Jerrold, correspondence
Madibele, Miotshepi, correspondence, production material
Martin, Douglas, correspondence
MacDonald, Robert, correspondence
Newport Printing Company, correspondence
National Library of Wales, correspondence
McMillington, Rodney, correspondence
National Trust, Cardiff Association, correspondence
N, general correspondence
Newport, Barry, correspondence
Moon, Pip, correspondence
Obituaries
O, general correspondence
Osmond, Mat, correspondence, production material
Ould, Martyn, correspondence
Oxford Guild of Printers, correspondence
Orme, Robert, correspondence
Perryman, Kevin, correspondence
Phipps and Company, correspondence
Packard, Simon, correspondence
Puil, Paul Pever, correspondence
PQ, general correspondence
Primrose Hill Press, correspondence
Richards, Barry, correspondence
Rundley, Timothy, correspondence
Roose-Evans, James, correspondence
Rocket Press, correspondence
Rowlands-Pritchard, John, correspondence
R, general correspondence
Tute, Bernhard, correspondence
Sharp, N. C. Craig, correspondence
Sanford, Lettice, correspondence
Stephens, Ian, correspondence
Silent Books, correspondence
Five Seasons Press, correspondence
S, general correspondence
Michael Taylor Rare Books, correspondence
Lauretti, Robert, correspondence, production materials
Todd, Will, correspondence
Tucker, Alex, correspondence
T-U, correspondence
National Library of Wales, correspondence
Whitlock-Bundell, Joe, correspondence
Weiss, Burton, correspondence
Williams, Eric, correspondence
Whiteway, Rogers, correspondence (includes hard disks)
Watson, Adam, correspondence
V-W, correspondence
Whittington Press, correspondence
Zip, correspondence
Yale University, correspondence
Yallop, Jacqueline, correspondence
Yorke, Malcolm, correspondence
Box 13
Copy of
The Old Stile Press...in the twentieth
century: a bibliography, 1979-1999
Exhibitions, sale or return copies
Murphy, Gwenan and Peter, correspondence
Wilde, Oscar, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," orders and
correspondence
Crossley-Holland, Kevin,
Eleanor's Advent, orders and
correspondence
Tanner, Robin,
The More Angels I Shall Paint, orders and
correspondence
(includes photo negatives)
Tanner, Robin, correspondence and production material
Leonard Curtis & Co., correspondence
The Lad Philiside, correspondence and production material
Brown, George Mackay,
Keepers of the House, correspondence and
production material
Lemaire, Angela,
Pied Piper, correspondence and production
material
The Holy Barb, correspondence and production material
Judas Iscariot and Elegy, correspondence and production
material
Pitts, J. Martin, correspondence and production material
Pitts, J. Martin,
24 Nudes, correspondence and production
material
Pitts, J. Martin,
The Waternymph and the Boy, correspondence and
production material
Pitts, J. Martin "Abraham and Isaac" – correspondence and production
material.
Pitts, J. Martin, general publication check list and
expenses
Redcliffe Press, correspondence
Thomas, Llewellyn, correspondence and production material
McDowall, Nicholas,
A Wall in Wales, correspondence and production
material
Davis, Michael and Simon Brett,
The Way to the Tree of Life,
correspondence and production material
MacNeill, Alyson,
Song of the Forest, correspondence and production
material.
Grimes, Peter, correspondence and production material
MacNeill, Alyson,
Benedicte, correspondence and production material
(includes woodcut)
Crossley-Holland, Kevin,
Oenone in January, correspondence and
production material
Lawrences, Inger,
The Seafarer, correspondence and production
material
Box 14
Nurse, Chris,
Pyramus & Thisbe, correspondence and production material
(2 folders)
(includes leather samples and film negatives)
Schwartz, Julian, correspondence and production material
(includes photographs)
Martin, Gillian,
The Nonsense Stories, correspondence and production material
(2 folders)
(includes metal plates)
Martin, Gillian,
A Pear of Disconnected Verses, correspondence and production material
(includes metal plates)
MacDonald, Robert,
Where Many Shipwreck, correspondence and production material
Box 15
Palmer, Garrick,
Ballad of Reading Gaol, correspondence and production material
Palmer, Garrick,
Land, correspondence and production material
Box 16
Lemaire, Angela,
Thomas the Rhymer and Thomas the Future, correspondence and production material
Lemaire, Angela, miscellaneous titles, correspondence and production material
Lemaire, Angela,
Pyed Piper, correspondence and production material
Lemaire, Angela,
Joys, correspondence and production material
Kirk, Robert & Lemaire, Angela,
Secret Commonwealth, correspondence and production material
(includes hard disk)
Box 17
Smith, Timothy d'Arch,
Alphabet, correspondence and production material
A, general correspondence
Alexander, Gregory, correspondence and production material
Blamines, David, correspondence
Byram-Wigfield, David, correspondence
Blow, Brian, correspondence
B, general correspondence
Bishop, Hal, correspondence
Brett, Simon, correspondence
Biblio File, correspondence
Brockway, Harry, correspondence (2 folders)
Checklist Calvary, correspondence
Crossley-Holland, Kevin, correspondence
Cutler, Ivor, correspondence
Cruikshank, George, correspondence
Cooke, Jean, correspondence
Crow, Barbara, correspondence
C, general correspondence (includes newspaper clippings)
Clayton, Roger, correspondence
Caxton Printing Supplies, correspondence
Confrey, Neil and Debra, correspondence
Desai, Ashvin, correspondence
Deuckert, Alexander, correspondence
Dingle, Habib, correspondence (include holiday card with cross-stitching on the front)
Hodgkins, Ian, correspondence
D, general correspondence
Delrue, Paul, correspondence (includes photograph)
Duyn, Jereon, correspondence and production materials
Designer Bookbinders, correspondence
D'Arbeloff, Natalie, correspondence and checklist of her works
Barbarian Press, correspondence and catalogue
E, correspondence, book, and photographs
Davies, John Elwyn, correspondence
Finley, Eric, correspondence and production material (includes photographs)
F, general correspondence
Future developments
Forster, Peter, correspondence
Folio Society, correspondence
Goddard, Juliette, correspondence
Gill, Alaistair, correspondence
Goldmark, Mike, correspondence
Gunn, Gordon and Freida, correspondence
Greenslade, David, correspondence and books
Gold, David, correspondence (includes newspaper clippings)
Geraci, Joseph, correspondence
G, general correspondence
Greenwood, Jeremy, correspondence
Harrison, Ski, correspondence and photographs (negatives)
Hill, Susan, correspondence
Hall, Bryan, correspondence
H, general correspondence
Jones, David, correspondence
I-J, general correspondence
Kobayashi, Shusuke, correspondence
K, general correspondence
Box 18
Hughes, Lynn, correspondence
Thomas, Dylan,
The Laugharne Poems, production material, correspondence
Thomas, Dylan,
The Laugharne Poems, orders
McDowall, Frances & Nicholas, correspondence
d'Arbeloff, Natalie,
Revelation, production material, correspondence
Box 19
Philpott, Sara, correspondence, production material
Skelton, Robin, correspondence
Skelton, Robin & Philpott, Sara,
Lens of Crystal, production material, orders
Latin Memories, production material, negatives
Blaga, Lucian,
The Poems of Light, correspondence, production material
Blaga, Lucian,
The Poems of Light, Sara Philpott correspondence, production material
Box 20
Hughes, Ted, correspondence
Lloyd, Reg,
Standing Stone, correspondence, production material
Lloyd, Reg & Hughes, Ted,
Earth Dances, production material
Brown, George Mackay,
In the Margins of a Shakespeare, correspondence, production material
Graham, Rigby,
Kippers and Sawdust, correspondence, production material
Box 21
First British Conference of Fine Printing, The Camberwell Press (Camberwell Conference), correspondence, conference material
If Symposium, BBC Wales (BBC Conference), correspondence
Bold, Alan, correspondence
Brown, Hamish, correspondence
"Prints on the Page," Six Chapel Row, and Caterpillar Moon, correspondence, event material
Exhibitions 1995, correspondence, exhibition material
Art of Living 1998, correspondence, posters, conference material
Seventy Stunning Books, Six Chapel Row, correspondence
The Bleddfa Trust, correspondence, exhibition material
Printing Presses, correspondence, instruction book
24 Nudes, correspondence, sales orders
Basilisk Press (Charlene Garry), correspondence, orders
Beginning Religion, Bruce & Wallbarch, production material
The Fine Art Society, correspondence, promotional material
Artisan 2002, correspondence, conference material
RBSA Exhibition 2006, correspondence, exhibition material
Robin Tanner Centenary, correspondence, production material
Swarthmore College, correspondence, orders
Charles Seluzicki Fine & Rare Books, correspondence, orders
Vamp & Tramp Booksellers, correspondence
Califia Books, correspondence, orders
Bookarts at the Bookery, correspondence, orders
Valia Fine Art, correspondence, orders
The 40th California International Antiquarian Book Fair / The Codex International Book Fair, 2007, correspondence, conference
materials
Oak Knoll Fest XII, 2005, conference material
London Artist Book Fair 2007 and Watercolours & Drawings Fair 2008, correspondence, conference material
Exhibitions/Fairs 2007, correspondence, conference material
House & Garden 2007, correspondence, article
Watercolours & Drawings Fair 2009, correspondence, conference material
Exhibitions 2004, correspondence, conference material
Brecon Exhibition,
Working with Artists in Wales, Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery, correspondence, promotional material, exhibition material
Box 22
Photographic Material
Tanner, Robin,
The More Angels I Shall Paint
Tanner, Robin, correspondence and production material
Pitts, J. Martin
MacDonald, Nicolas,
A Wall in Wales
Strachan, Geoffrey, correspondence, production materials, research
M, general correspondence
Mc, general correspondence
MacNeill, Alyson, correspondence
Newport Printing Company, correspondence
Roose-Evans, James, correspondence
S, general correspondence
Barnfield, Richard,
Sonnets
d'Arbeloff, Nicole,
Revelation
Nurse, Chris,
Pyramus & Thisbe
Goddard, Juliette, correspondence
Harrison, Ski, correspondence
Correspondence 1996-2006
Harrop, Dorothy,
Bibliography of Old Stile Press
Thomas, Dylan,
The Laugharne Poems, production material, correspondence
Blaga, Lucian, The Poems of Light, correspondence, production material
Exhibitions 1995, correspondence, exhibition material
Printing Presses, correspondence, instruction book
Graham, Rigby,
Kippers and Sawdust, correspondence, production material
Miscellaneous, correspondence, printouts
Box 23 (Oversize)
Barnfield, Richard,
Sonnets
correspondence, production material
Box 24 (Oversize)
Strachan, Geoffrey,
Masks
correspondence, production material, research
Box 25 (Oversize)
Duke Bluebeard's Castle
production material
Box 26 (Oversize)
Kiggell, Ralph
assorted volumes
Box 27 (Oversize)
Hardy, Thomas,
Green Blades
correspondence, production material
Box 28 (Oversize)
Isaac, Bert.
The Landscape Within
correspondence, production material, research
Box 29 (Oversize)
Martin, Gillian
assorted volumes
Box 30 (Oversize)
Brown, George Mackay,
In the Margins of a Shakespeare
correspondence, production material
Box 31 (Oversize)
d'Arbeloff, Natalie,
Revelation
production material, correspondence
Box 32 (Oversize)
Lemaire, Angela,
Pyed Piper
correspondence and production material
Box 33 (Oversize)
Graham, W.S. & Thomson, Douglas.
Letters & Heads
correspondence, production material, research
Box 34 (Oversize)
Taliesin & the Mockers
correspondence, production material
Box 35 (Oversize)
Sutton, Philip
correspondence, production material, research
Box 36 (Oversize)
Graham, Rigby,
Kippers and Sawdust
correspondence, production material
Box 37 (Oversize)
Martin, Gillian,
The Nonsense Stories
correspondence and production material
Box 38 (Oversize)
Wilde, Nicolas,
The Flute of Sardonyx
correspondence, production material
Box 39 (Oversize)
Palmer, Garrick,
Ballad of Reading Gaol
correspondence and production material
Box 40 (Oversize)
Kirk, Robert,
Secret Commonwealth
correspondence and production material
Box 41 (Oversize)
Elwyn, Joan,
House of Leaves
correspondence and production material
Box 42 (Oversize)
Tanner, Robin,
The Last Poems of Alice Maynell
correspondence and production material
Box 43 (Oversize)
Lamaire, Angela,
Thomas the Rhymer and
Thomas the Future
correspondence and production material
Box 44 (Oversize)
Nurse, Chris.
Pyramus & Thisbe
correspondence, production material
Box 45 (Oversize)
Crossley-Holland, Kevin, Eleanor's Advent
production material
Box 46 (Oversize)
Zerkall special making.
Antique
61x100cms 200 gsm.
Box 47 (Oversize)
Anderson, Kate
artistic sample
Eschenbach, Wolfram von,
Parzival
Gwasg Gregynog Press, publicity material
Rocket Press
correspondence, production material
Davis, Michael and Simon Brett,
The Way to the Tree of Life
correspondence and production material
Biblio File
correspondence