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Keepsake Press
The Keepsake Press was a private press founded by English writer Roy Lewis. The press published more than 100 books and chapbooks using letterpress techniques. It ceased to operate in 1996 when Lewis died. Its archive is now housed at Reading University. Keepsake Poems A series of 39 poetry chapbooks, ''The Keepsake Poems'', was published between 1972 and 1979 by the press. All have a standard format of crown quarto wrapper enclosing a trimmed folded sheet. A poem and illustration were printed on the centre pages and the print run was generally of 180 copies. Contributors are listed as: # ''Incident at West Bay'' by Vernon Scannell, illustrated by Vana Haggerty ''1972# ''The Wake'' by Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Angela Lemaire # ''The Thrush'' by Anne Tibble, illustrated by Thomas Bewick and school # ''The Select Party'' by Gavin Ewart, illustrated by Arthur Merric Boyd # ''Crag of Craving'' by Thomas Blackburn, drawing by Margaret Macguire # ''Illness'' Russian by Bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Press
Private press publishing, with respect to books, is an endeavor performed by craft-based expert or aspiring artisans, either amateur or professional, who, among other things, print and build books, typically by hand, with emphasis on design, graphics, layout, fine printing, binding, covers, paper, stitching, and the like. Description The term "private press" is not synonymous with "fine press," "small press," or "university press" – though there are similarities. One similarity shared by all is that they need not meet higher commercial thresholds of commercial presses. Private presses, however, often have no profit motive. A similarity shared with fine and small presses, but not university presses, is that for various reasons – namely quality – production quantity is often limited. University presses are typically more automated. A distinguishing quality of private presses is that they enjoy sole discretion over literary, scientific, artistic, and aesthetic merits. Cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Simmonds
Stanley Wilfred Simmonds Royal College of Art, ARCA (29 October 1917 – 11 June 2006) was a British painter and art teacher. He was born in Droitwich, Worcestershire, in 1917, the third and youngest son of a relief signalman and a dressmaker. After a scholarship to the Royal Grammar School Worcester, he attended Birmingham College of Art from 1934 to 1939. During the Second World War, he served in the Royal Navy, where he encountered the poet Charles Causley, who was to remain a lifelong friend. He painted a number of portraits of Causley, and the poet dedicated his 1970 book of poems for children, ''Figgie Hobbin'' to Simmonds and his wife. Serving aboard the aircraft carrier , he observed the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Service in the Far East awoke an interest in oriental art, which is reflected in the colour-palette of some his later paintings. After the war, he studied at the Royal College of Art, graduating in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick Hutton
Warwick Hutton (17 July 1939 – 28 September 1994) was a British painter, glass engraver, illustrator, and children's author. He is most widely known for elegant pen and ink and watercolor illustrations for children’s books. His subjects were Biblical, folk, and mythological stories which Hutton retold, such as ''Noah and the Great Flood'', ''The Nose Tree'', and ''Theseus and the Minotaur''. He also worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen (''The Tinderbox'') and with retellings of traditional stories by author Susan Cooper (''The Silver Cow'', ''The Selkie Girl'', ''Tam Lin''). The ''Nose Tree'' and ''Jonah and the Big Fish'' were chosen for the New York Times’s annual list of best-illustrated children's books. ''Jonah and the Great Fish'' was also the recipient of the 1984 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Best Picture Book. Hutton died of cancer on 28 September 1994 in Cambridge, England. His parents were immigrants from New Zealand; his father was the artist an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Booth
Martin Booth (7 September 1944 – 12 February 2004) was an English novelist and poet. He also worked as a teacher and screenwriter, and was the founder of the Sceptre Press. Early life Martin Booth was born in Lancashire England, the son of Joyce and Ken Booth, the latter of which was a Royal Navy civil servant. Martin has said that his parents had a difficult marriage, as his father was stern, pompous, and humourless, while his mother was adventurous, witty, and sociable. The family moved to Hong Kong in May 1952, where his father was stationed for a three-year tour as a grocery supplier to the British Navy. In his memoir “Gweilo: A memoir of a Hong Kong Childhood” Booth recalls that the streets of Hong Kong were safe, and he would explore the city alone as a child. He encountered things he was unfamiliar with: dogs hung in a butcher shop, an impoverished family living in a packing crate, and a Russian refugee who claimed to be the missing Russian princess Anastasia. Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |