The Petrarch Press
Special Offer to Independent Binders The Petrarch Press is pleased to offer independent bookbinders a limited number of handmade-paper copies in sheets of our latest publication: Edward FitzGerald’s…
The Petrarch Press is pleased to announce our latest fine-press book: Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Our text, that of the 1859 First Edition, is supplemented with six additional quatrains FitzGerald added to his later editions. ❖ The two-color printing, on our Albion handpress, on both handmade paper and parchment, is now complete.
Special Offer to Independent Binders The Petrarch Press is pleased to offer independent bookbinders a limited number of handmade-paper copies in sheets of our most important edition to…
When we began to visualize our new edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, just a few ideas stood out. We wanted an intimate volume where each sonnet would be presented on its own page and where each verse would stand on one line, regardless of its length. Visually, we wanted our edition to resonate with…
Shakespearean English can be problematic for modern readers. Standardisation of the language did not begin in earnest until the late 18th century. Some words had various spellings, all of which were considered normal at the time. Some words had meanings that have changed over the centuries…
The Petrarch Press edition of Shake-speare’s Sonnets has been the most significant project in our history — both for the end result and for the new skills and capabilities we developed along the way. The decision to print the original text was itself a journey of discovery, in which we abandoned our initial plan…
In October 2010 the Press acquired its own Monotype Thompson typecasting machine, along with dozens of series of matrices, the small recessed molds for the three-dimensional letterforms that are the essence of letterpress printing.
A few years ago, the Press received a commission to produce a small letterpress edition of poetry: a personal volume of 50 sonnets for the author’s own distribution.
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