THE TABARD PRESS
Proprietor: Philip Kerrigan
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Extracts selected, introduced and annotated by Alan Crocker and Martin Kane (1990)
James Simmons, master paper-maker in the small market town of Haslemere in Surrey, England, kept a diary from 1831 until shortly before his death in 1868. It consisted of thirty-eight booklets and represents a fascinating account of his family and business affairs. The references to his paper-making activities form only a part of the diaries and it is these extracts, in the main, which appear in the book. They provide a significant contribution to the understanding of the life of a paper-maker during the difficult period of the 19th century.
The diaries have only recently become available and the Tabard Press has been fortunate in being able to publish them for the first time. Alan Crocker and Martin Kane have undertaken extensive research on the material covered and their introduction and annotations provide an interesting commentary. By using one of James Simmons's moulds it has been possible for the paper mill at Wookey Hole to produce some hand-made sheets showing the Simmons watermarks, examples of which are included in the book.
The book is a companion volume to the Press's earlier publication, Paper Mills of the Tillingbourne by Alan Crocker (now out of print), having a similar format and binding. The edition is limited to 210 copies printed letterpress in Monotype Baskerville on dampened paper. There are 19 illustrations including a wood-engraving by Michael Renton and lithographic reproductions of contemporary photographs and drawings printed by the Senecio Press, Charlbury, England. The binding has been carried out by the Fine Bindery, Wellingborough, England. The size of the book is 230mm by 240mm and consists of about 190pp. Two versions were available, both printed on T H Saunders mould-made paper. The standard edition numbers 180 copies bound in linen-covered boards with a gold-blocked leather spine label (ISBN 1 869924 04 5) £65. The special edition (now out of print) of 30 copies was quarter-bound in leather with linen-covered boards, in a slip-case (ISBN 1 869924 05 3) £90. UK postage and packing £3; overseas postage and packing will be charged at cost.
Alan Crocker is Professor of Physics and Chairman of the Delegacy at the University of Surrey. He is also deeply involved in local history and archaeology, particularly of the former industries of Surrey. He is currently President of the Surrey Industrial History Group, Chairman of the British Association of Paper Historians, Chairman of the Gunpowder Mills Study Group, and a past Chairman of the Wind and Watermill Section of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. His publications include a detailed research volume on the Catteshall Mill in Godalming, Paper Mills of the Tillingbourne (see above), many shorter articles on industrial archaeology and over a hundred scientific papers.
Martin Kane is a social historian and loves in Liss, Hampshire, England. His main interest is the local history of the Haslemere area. As the historian with the River Wey Trust, based at Liphook, he co-authored their guide to The Southern Wey, a study of the valley between Haslemere and Tilford. It was his research for this book which led to the discovery of the diaries of James Simmons. He also edited the biographical notes on a full transcript of the diaries published in 1990. A limited number of copies were deposited in local libraries and record offices.
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Articles contributed to The London Mercury 1920-1925 by B H Newdigate, with a foreword by Ruari McLean (1986)
Bernard Henry Newdigate (1869-1944) was born at Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire, England, a son of the local vicar, Alfred Newdigate. Educated at Stonyhurst, and intended for the Civil Service, he instead decided to help his father, who had acquired a printing and publishing business, which later became the Arden Press. In 1920, he became Printer to the Shakespeare Head Press in Stratford-upon-Avon.
The London Mercury, a monthly literary journal, commenced publication in November 1919 under the editorship of J C Squire. It contained a regular feature entitled Book Production Notes. Newdigate was, with few exceptions, the author of these Notes from May 1920 to December 1937. (The journal was incorporated into Life and Letters in May 1930.)
The first five and a half years of these contributions have now been reprinted unabridged for the first time and includes all the illustrations (about 50). In some cases it has been possible, by reproducing from the originals, to improve on the quality and size of these as they originally in The London Mercury. Letters published in the journal on subjects arising from the articles are included in the appendices, with contributions from George Bernard Shaw and Charles Jacobi. An index is provided. The Foreword has been written by Ruari McLean, book designer and author of many books on printing and typography, who in his early days was introduced to printing by Bernard Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press in Oxford.
For those interested in typography and the history of printing, Book Production Notes provides an important source of information on a period when a revival of the subject was taking place in Europe and North America.
The edition is limited to 250 standard copies printed on Basingwerk paper, and 20 special copies printed on damped Van Gelder Simili Japon paper. The standard version is quarter bound in dark-blue canvas with light-blue buckram boards, and Morris patterned end-papers. The special copies (now out of print) were quarter bound in tan Oasis leather with canvas boards, Cockerell marbled end-papers and contained in a slip-case. The size is 286 by 196mm with 226pp. Both versions are bound by Woolnough Fine Binding. Most of the text was machine-set by the Whittington Press in 14pt Monotype Bembo, subsequently put through the stick at the Tabard Press and printed on Hunter-Penrose and Stephenson Blake Pre-Press cylinder proofing presses.
The price of the standard edition is £48, plus postage and packing.(ISBN 1 869924 00 2)
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by Renee and Andre Guillaume, translated from the French by Hilary Mandleberg
T. E. Lawrence's classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom has sold more than a million copies and has been translated into many languages. The international scrutiny of Lawrence's exploits in the Middle East during the First World War, and his subsequent writings, has nowhere been more comprehensive than in France.
There are a number of reasons for this. French political interests in the Middle East were deep rooted and were opposed to Lawrence's idea of an Arab settlement after the War. But the French were also interested in Lawrence as a rara avis; a combination of a man of action and one of high intellectual attainments, who was an individualist and, as Churchill said, appeared 'unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, rank or even power and fame.'
When Renée and André Guillaume translated Seven Pillars of Wisdom into French they provided an Introduction and compiled comprehensive Notes to facilitate the reading of this complicated book. In their Introduction the translators give a short but useful resumé of the military, political and literary background to Seven Pillars. The Notes are the result of their close examination of the text, an exercise which, surprisingly, has not been conducted before.
The French Introduction and Notes have now been translated into English for the first time by Hilary Mandleberg.The Notes need to be read in conjunction with any of the following editions of Seven Pillars of Wisdom; Jonathan Cape 1935, Penguin Books or Anchor Books, published by Doubleday, New York, 1991, from page 29 onwards.
Renée Guillaume graduated in English at the Sorbonne in 1949 and carried out research on American literature at Yale University in 1954. The following year she married André Guillaume. A lecturer in English and the Fine Arts at the University of Orléans, she obtained a State Doctorate, summa cum laude, at the Sorbonne. In addition to translating Seven Pillars of Wisdom in cooperation with her husband, Renée Guillaume has also published critical translations of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and The Life and Death of Mr Badman.
André Guillaume graduated in Law, Economics and English at the University of Lyons in 1948. After a short period as a subaltern in the French Army he researched American literature at Yale University in 1954. Later he was appointed Professor at the University of Paris X, Nanterre and subsequently was Professor of English, and British and Irish Civilizations at the Sorbonne.
The Edition is limited to 525 numbered copies, 24 x 15.5 cm, set in 11.5pt Sabon, 274pp. The standard edition is bound in buckram boards with dust-jacket, the paper is matt cream to the specification of the printer. The special edition is limited to 25 copies (22 of which are for sale) quarter-bound in cream goatskin with dark-blue buckram covered boards, t.e.g., gold-blocking on spine with eagle gold-blocked on front board; Mohawk superfine paper and Cockerell marbled end-papers; in grey buckram slip-case. Typeset by the Tabard Press, printed and bound by Smith Settle, Otley, West Yorkshire.
Standard edition, £32.50, special edition £87.00. Postage and packing, £3.00 to UK, overseas at cost. Special price to members of the T. E. Lawrence Society, £27.30 and £73.00 respectively.
An important new Lawrence title. . .The Notes are by a long way the most extensive commentary of their kind on Seven Pillars . . . Anyone seriously interested in Seven Pillars or the Arab Revolt really ought to have a copy. Jeremy Wilson TELStudies
Books can be ordered from Philip Kerrigan, The Tabard Press, White Timbers, Stokesheath Road, Oxshott, Surrey KT22 0PS, UK, or via e-mail. Overseas customers are requested to pay in sterling, otherwise a charge of £3.50 is made to cover part of the bank and conversion charges.
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