Browse by country
33 presses in United Kingdom.
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.
Limited-edition illustrated books with letterpress text, fine bindings, and signed copies, including prestige editions of contemporary and classic literature; trades as Boddington & Royall.
A private press and printmaking workshop producing limited-edition artist's books and prints, and teaching intaglio, block printing, wood engraving and letterpress.
Hand-printed limited-edition artist's books in which letterpress type and original etchings are each printed separately by hand.
A small private press producing illustrated letterpress limited editions, combining classic literature and traditional Japanese folklore with woodblock prints and fine binding.
Designing, composing, printing and publishing limited-edition books and ephemeral typographic work.
Contemporary letterpress practice using only traditional wood and metal type, hand-composed and printed to make fine-press books, broadsides and typographic limited editions.
Finely produced illustrated books and artist editions rooted in mid-century design and auto-lithography, printed with craft methods and plant-based inks.
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.
A long-established independent publisher of fine artists' books and limited-edition prints, produced in collaboration with leading artists and writers.
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 editions printed on Columbian and Albion hand presses, with original wood engravings, by Graham Williams.
Independent publisher of finely produced illustrated editions of classic and contemporary literature, with specially designed bindings, commissioned illustration, and hand-numbered limited editions.
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.
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.
Fine limited-edition illustrated books for adults, working with noted illustrators such as Ronald Searle, Rigby Graham and Miriam Macgregor.
Large-format limited-edition artist's books reproducing Leslie Gerry's bold, flat-colour digital paintings, issued in deluxe, regular, and miniature editions.
Finely produced illustrated books on inter-war British artists such as Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, John Piper, and Paul Nash.
A fine press publishing illustrated limited-edition books of literary and weird fiction in collaboration with leading illustrators, printers and binders.
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 books described by the press as 'letterpress books with a contemporary twist', alongside scholarly studies of printing and papermaking history.
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.
Traditional hand-set letterpress printing and limited-edition poetry publishing, operating a full letterpress workshop with extensive type and vintage presses.
Hand-set letterpress limited editions printed by Dr. Miles Wigfield.
The studio and imprint of artist-printer David Armes, working primarily in letterpress to produce prints, artists' books and installations in the South Pennines.
Operates one of the last remaining hot-metal Monotype typesetting, casting and letterpress workshops in the UK, designing and printing fine limited-edition books.
Fine letterpress printing of illustrated books, typically featuring wood engravings or original illustrative work in hand-made limited editions.
Hand-made artist's books that combine letterpress text, original etchings and other printmaking, and fine binding, all made by the artist herself.
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'.
A private press printing letterpress by hand, producing fine-press editions of literary texts paired with wood engravings.
Individually designed illustrated books combining art and literature, including poetry and works of local interest to Reading.
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.
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.