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33 presses in United Kingdom.

Bibliographical Press, Bodleian Libraries

Oxford, United Kingdom est. 1949

A working letterpress workshop within the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford, housing hand-operated printing presses and offering courses and collaborative printing projects in traditional letterpress and book arts.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Typography

Books Illustrated

Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom est. 2013

Limited-edition illustrated books with letterpress text, fine bindings, and signed copies, including prestige editions of contemporary and classic literature; trades as Boddington & Royall.

  • Fine press
  • Letterpress
  • Hand binding

Bracken Press

Scalby, Scarborough, United Kingdom est. 1974

A private press and printmaking workshop producing limited-edition artist's books and prints, and teaching intaglio, block printing, wood engraving and letterpress.

  • Letterpress
  • Private press
  • Artists' books
  • +1

Chevington Press

United Kingdom est. 1980

Hand-printed limited-edition artist's books in which letterpress type and original etchings are each printed separately by hand.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • +1

Cordes Press

London, United Kingdom est. 2021

A small private press producing illustrated letterpress limited editions, combining classic literature and traditional Japanese folklore with woodblock prints and fine binding.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • +1

Corvus Works

Consett, Durham, United Kingdom

Designing, composing, printing and publishing limited-edition books and ephemeral typographic work.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • +1

The Counter Press

Bath, United Kingdom est. 2011

Contemporary letterpress practice using only traditional wood and metal type, hand-composed and printed to make fine-press books, broadsides and typographic limited editions.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Typography
  • +1

Design for Today

Topsham, Devon, United Kingdom est. 2015

Finely produced illustrated books and artist editions rooted in mid-century design and auto-lithography, printed with craft methods and plant-based inks.

  • Fine press
  • Artists' books
  • Typography

Effra Press & Typefoundry

Newton on Ouse, United Kingdom est. 2017

Run by Nick Gill, combining a fine press releasing limited-edition artists' books and prints with a typefoundry casting new metal type and supplying hot-metal typesetting for letterpress printers.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Artists' books
  • +1

Enitharmon Editions

London, United Kingdom est. 1967

A long-established independent publisher of fine artists' books and limited-edition prints, produced in collaboration with leading artists and writers.

  • Fine press
  • Artists' books
  • Typography

Evergreen Press

Stonehouse, United Kingdom

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.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • +1

The Florin Press

Charing, Kent, United Kingdom est. 1966

Letterpress editions printed on Columbian and Albion hand presses, with original wood engravings, by Graham Williams.

  • Letterpress
  • Private press
  • Wood engraving
  • +1

The Folio Society

London, United Kingdom est. 1947

Independent publisher of finely produced illustrated editions of classic and contemporary literature, with specially designed bindings, commissioned illustration, and hand-numbered limited editions.

  • Fine press
  • Hand binding
  • Typography
  • +1

Gwasg Gregynog

Newtown, Powys, United Kingdom est. 1922

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.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • +3

Hand & Eye Letterpress

London, United Kingdom est. 1985

One of London's leading commercial and fine letterpress printers, founded by Phil Abel and based in East London. Also operates the Arete Editions imprint, publishing letterpress fine-press books with authors such as Neil Gaiman.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Typography

The Inky Parrot Press

Oxford, United Kingdom est. 1980

Fine limited-edition illustrated books for adults, working with noted illustrators such as Ronald Searle, Rigby Graham and Miriam Macgregor.

  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • Artists' books
  • +1

Leslie Gerry Editions

Dowdeswell, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Large-format limited-edition artist's books reproducing Leslie Gerry's bold, flat-colour digital paintings, issued in deluxe, regular, and miniature editions.

  • Fine press
  • Artists' books
  • Typography

The Mainstone Press

Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom est. 2006

Finely produced illustrated books on inter-war British artists such as Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, John Piper, and Paul Nash.

  • Fine press
  • Wood engraving
  • Typography

Nepenthe Press

Settle, United Kingdom

A fine press publishing illustrated limited-edition books of literary and weird fiction in collaboration with leading illustrators, printers and binders.

  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • Hand binding
  • +1

Nomad Letterpress

Whittington, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

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.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • +1

The Old School Press

Hinton Charterhouse, Bath, United Kingdom

Letterpress fine-press books described by the press as 'letterpress books with a contemporary twist', alongside scholarly studies of printing and papermaking history.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • +2

The Old Stile Press

Much Marcle, United Kingdom est. 1979

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.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • +2

Paekakariki Press

Walthamstow, London, United Kingdom est. 2010

Traditional hand-set letterpress printing and limited-edition poetry publishing, operating a full letterpress workshop with extensive type and vintage presses.

  • Letterpress
  • Private press
  • Typography

The Reading Room Press

Quenington, Cirencester, United Kingdom est. 2002

Hand-set letterpress limited editions printed by Dr. Miles Wigfield.

  • Letterpress
  • Private press
  • Typography

Red Plate Press

Todmorden, United Kingdom est. 2012

The studio and imprint of artist-printer David Armes, working primarily in letterpress to produce prints, artists' books and installations in the South Pennines.

  • Letterpress
  • Artists' books
  • Fine press
  • +1

Rooks Moor Press

Stroud, United Kingdom

Operates one of the last remaining hot-metal Monotype typesetting, casting and letterpress workshops in the UK, designing and printing fine limited-edition books.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • +1

St James Park Press

London, United Kingdom est. 2015

Fine letterpress printing of illustrated books, typically featuring wood engravings or original illustrative work in hand-made limited editions.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • +2

Susan Allix

London, United Kingdom

Hand-made artist's books that combine letterpress text, original etchings and other printmaking, and fine binding, all made by the artist herself.

  • Fine press
  • Artists' books
  • Hand binding
  • +1

Thin Ice Press

York, United Kingdom est. 2017

The letterpress printing centre of the University of York, producing limited-edition letterpress books and ephemera from hand-set type and offering workshops as 'the York Centre for Print'.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Typography

Tudor Black Press

United Kingdom est. 2005

A private press printing letterpress by hand, producing fine-press editions of literary texts paired with wood engravings.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • +1

Two Rivers Press

Reading, United Kingdom est. 1994

Individually designed illustrated books combining art and literature, including poetry and works of local interest to Reading.

  • Fine press
  • Artists' books
  • Typography

Whittington Press

Risbury, Herefordshire, United Kingdom est. 1971

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.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • +2

Woodcraft Press

Tonbridge, United Kingdom

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.

  • Letterpress
  • Fine press
  • Private press
  • +2