st james park press
PROSPECTUSES ET AL.
The Press has printed the following relating to the Press or books published from it.
ART OF THE BOOK
Emulating the design of the covers to Bernard Newdigate’s The Art of the Book, being in yellow, blue and utilising Gill Sans, this poster is in similar colours and is set with Gill Sans wood type, printed on an Albion Press. Originally intended to be used as part of a window exhibition at 401½ Studios in London, it has since been used as a postcard advertising the Press. Edition of 7 copies only.
(2021)
SJPTONE SERIES
This series of Pantone inspired A5 prints follows the series of editions from the Press in chronological order. Each features a colour most associated with the edition to which it relates, with a name most closely linked. The reference number relates to the year in which that book was published, the year the SJPTone card was printed, and the chronological sequence of the book/ card. The reverse of the text printed in handset Octavian, designed by Will Carter and David Kindersley.
01: Herculean Green refers to the green binding of half of the Hercules (2017) edition. The card printed in 2023 for a portfolio to be sold in aid of the Turkey-Syria Earthquake appeal. Printed on 220gsm Conqueror Blanc Glacier Velin paper.
(2023 -)
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR PROSPECTUS
Planned at the end of 2020 and printed from the beginning of 2021, ready to send around June of that year. The prospectus finalised the intended layout of the edition.
The contents for the prospectus included: a specimen sheet with publication details on the reverse, on Zerkall ohne-silurian (as used for the edition), a printed eye wrapper (the paper used again in the edition as the wrapper for the Room 101 illustration), an accompanying letter on engraved letterheads, a list of handmade papers and a list of the contents of the special edition, along with a digital facsimile of the Big Brother is Watching You illustration, all loosely inserted into the specimen page. The envelope, printed on an Arab Press, was brown paper over card for the ordinary edition, and on a full cardboard envelope for those subscribing to the special edition. The whole edition limited to 300 copies only.
(2021)
BEAUTY OF BYRNE, THE ANNOUNCEMENT
Handset in Spectrum and Romulus types, printed on 160gsm Somerset and 180gsm Velin Cuve BFK Rives Blanc paper. The yellow printed shape being part of the title page design to the original Euclid’s Elements of Oliver Byrne’s 1847 edition.
(2023)