Barbarian Press
Internationally respected fine press producing hand-set, letterpress-printed limited editions of literary classics, translations, typography and books on wood engraving.
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Wood engraving
Presses working with the fine line of the engraved block. 21 presses.
The Bear Press
Handcrafted, limited-edition bibliophile books featuring original printmaking by renowned artists, including etchings, wood engravings and hand-colored work.
Bracken Press
A private press and printmaking workshop producing limited-edition artist's books and prints, and teaching intaglio, block printing, wood engraving and letterpress.
Deep Wood Press
Chad Pastotnik's letterpress and intaglio private-press and artists' books using handset type, wood engravings, and fine binding.
Evergreen Press
Founded by John Grice, printing traditional letterpress to a high standard and frequently editioning wood engravings for leading engravers; designs and prints limited-edition books on commission for publishers.
The Florin Press
Letterpress editions printed on Columbian and Albion hand presses, with original wood engravings, by Graham Williams.
Gwasg Gregynog
Historic Welsh fine press at Gregynog Hall producing limited-edition hand-printed books with fine bindings and wood-engraved illustrations, in both Welsh and English.
Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum
Museum and working letterpress shop holding one of the world's largest collections of wood type, printing and selling prints, posters and editions from its historic type and presses.
The Lone Oak Press
Limited-edition, letterpress-printed books and broadsides illustrated with wood engravings and etchings by Abigail Rorer, often on themes of nature. Rorer prints all images herself from the original blocks and plates.
The Mainstone Press
Finely produced illustrated books on inter-war British artists such as Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, John Piper, and Paul Nash.
Midnight Paper Sales
Gaylord Schanilec's wood-engraved, letterpress natural-history fine-press books.
Mixolydian Editions
Limited-edition fine-press books and print portfolios featuring the wood engravings of Richard Wagener, frequently on botanical and landscape themes and paired with essays or poetry.
Nomad Letterpress
Creative letterpress printing and Monotype type casting using Heidelberg and Wharfedale cylinder presses, producing limited editions in collaboration with wood engravers, pochoir illustrators, and bookbinders; hosts public Open Days.
The Old School Press
Letterpress fine-press books described by the press as 'letterpress books with a contemporary twist', alongside scholarly studies of printing and papermaking history.
The Old Stile Press
Fine books printed by hand in collaboration with artists and printmakers, typically in editions of between 100 and 250 copies, often with suites of wood engravings.
Pennyroyal Press
Barry Moser's letterpress editions illustrated with his wood engravings, including the Pennyroyal-Caxton Bible.
Peter Koch Printers
Letterpress limited editions, broadsides, and artists' books of classical texts and contemporary poetry, often featuring wood engravings.
St James Park Press
Fine letterpress printing of illustrated books, typically featuring wood engravings or original illustrative work in hand-made limited editions.
Tudor Black Press
A private press printing letterpress by hand, producing fine-press editions of literary texts paired with wood engravings.
Whittington Press
One of the most important British private presses of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries, printing and publishing all its work in letterpress and publisher of Matrix, the celebrated annual review for printers and bibliophiles.
Woodcraft Press
A private letterpress press run by Owen Legg in Tonbridge, Kent, printing limited editions by hand on a Cropper treadle press and a Fine Press Book Association member.