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Come Meet Us In Oxford

Oxford Fine Press Book Fair 2023

We’ll be exhibiting once again at the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair May 3rd and 4th, in the Examination Schools in central Oxford. If you’ll be at the fair, be sure to stop by the table to say hello and take in that special energy of traditionally printed fine-press editions. Table 56, facing the High Street entrance.

We’ll be showing:

  • Our most recent publication: Edward FitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám,
  • The last remaining copy of Thoughts from the Letters of Petrarch printed on sheepskin parchment,
  • Single sheets from Peter Bishop’s Petrarch Press publications, for educational purposes or to be framed,
  • A few remaining copies of Peter Bishop’s pamphlet On Wine, in both handmade and moldmade paper editions,
  • Broadsides of Walt Whitman’s Prayer of Columbus, Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, and Adrienne Rich’s Forms Colors,
  • Our “fine-press greeting card” booklet titled Your Worth to Sing, Shakespeare’s Sonnet 106 in original orthography, with mailing envelope and blank leaves suitable for dedication or inscription,
  • Packets of letterpress bookmarks with quotations from William Shakespeare.

Something for every collector.

See you there!