Solmentes

An illustrated talk on Thursday 5 November, by David Esslemont to The Bewick Society:  Newcastle City Library, Charles Avison Building, 33 New Bridge St W, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, at  6.30 p.m. "There is much here in the Northeast that is relevant to what I want to talk about tonight.  I have an interest in books. You have an interest in books. Actually, I find many people have an interest in books of some sort.   I also have an interest in food – and I’ve found that everybody has an interest in food.  I think chefs and book designers have a lot in common. We are designing, creating, directing – orchestrating – a wide range of different elements, and overseeing their production, often as multiples. Aren’t we both obsessed with detail, with the quality of the materials or ingredients, the production, the presentation . . .?  Aren’t we looking for that perfect balance?   Tonight I am going to talk about creativity, inspiration, and how our heritage, and our tradit

Oxford Bibliographical Society, Taylor Institute Monday, 2 November at 5.15 p.m. An illustrated talk ' To my bibliographer: notes, observations & anecdotes about books I have printed (or intend to), pertaining to Bewick, Carlyle, Chili, Curry, Keats, Levista, War and Wordsworth.' " . . . Minutiae are the bread and butter of both bookmaker and bibliographer. A  myriad seemingly trivial and mundane details all need careful consideration. I’m interested those details, those decisions that ultimately coalesce into books, books that function, books that are not only a joy to read, but also a delight to all the senses and in Carlyle’s words “excite the reader to self activity”. I’m interested in publishing too, because a book without a reader is worthless, isn’t it? And, like Philip Gaskell I believe the techniques of printing are key to understanding how a text comes into existence.   My bibliographer is compiling a descriptive catalogue, so let’s see

On Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November 2015, at Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Gipsy Lane, Oxford, England Solmentes at the 2015 Oxford Book Fair  Taxi Driver Curry  is now published and available in regular and deluxe bindings (see above, displayed together with  New York Revisited ). The book is described in a  previous  post The Oxford Fine Press Book Fair is organized by The Fine Press Book Association in collaboration with the Provincial Booksellers Association  Saturday, 31 October  11am to 6pm, and Sunday, 1 November  10am to 5pm. Featuring  98 exhibitors including private presses from the UK, the Americas, Russia, Asia, and continental Europe, as well as dealers in fine press books, suppliers of fine printing materials, and related societies:.