Incline Press ~ Great Britain

Making Books to Music To Greet the New Year 2002
By Andrew Wilde
2002. Edition of 150.

Paper Zerkall. Cover card Fabriano. Set in Monotype Joanna (478). Linocut by Peter Allen. Recital Notices by Robert Beale, David Fallows and Adrian Jack.

Eighth New Year Booklet from Incline Press with CD of Wilde's music.
$25

Who Killed Cock Robin?
Illustrated by Enid Marx
1996. Unnumbered edition.

3.25 x 5'" hand-made booklet with 6 pages. An unnumbered edition printed on acid-free paper. Set in a pair of Stephenson Blake typefaces, Modern no 20 for the text and Thorowgood Italic for the title. The front cover has an illustration of a robin on his back with an arrow sticking out from his chest. Illustrated With Wood Engravings by Enid Marx.

This children's rhyme was the first chapbook printed by Incline Press.

     Who Killed Cock Robin?
         I, said the sparrow,
         With my bow and arrow.
      I killed Cock Robin.

     Who saw him die?
         I, said the fly,
        With my little eye,
      I saw him die ...
$10

The First Wife:
A voice for Katherine of Aragon
By Deirdre Armes Smith
2003. Edition of 160 copies.

7 x 4”; 72 pages. Numbered and signed by both poet and engraver. Frontispiece signed by illustrator.

In this suite of sixteen poems the theme is the life of Katherine of Aragon, not the well known facts but more imagined thoughts and emotions beginning with her as a child bride in an arranged marriage. And, taking that voice through to the end of her life.

The wood engraved illustrations are by Alan Smith and Deirdre Armes Smith. Ms. Smith is a familiar voice to those who listen to the BBC wireless programme "Write Away" and has received many awards and prizes for her poems.
$80

Marco's Animal Alphabet
By Enid Marx
2000. Edition of 160.

Letterpress verse in Scotch Roman and Italic, with additional text in Bodoni on Fabriano Artistico.

The linocuts and doggerel verse are by Enid Marx (1902–1998). The color scheme was developed by Peter Allen. An introduction by publisher Graham Moss details the story of the prints and sets them in the context of the artist's work. Marx and Moss began their print relationship in 1993, when the latter was new to letterpress and in the process of publishing “In Praise of Patterned Papers” (which centered around a reprint of a Marx essay from 1950 on decorated papers). Although the cuts for Animal Alphabet were completed in 1979; two small portfolio editions of the prints were offered in the early 1990s; another press engaged to produce a book but was unable to follow through; and Moss himself made an earlier start that he felt "was not doing the work justice;" this is the first formal edition of the work. Bold, compelling cuts are accompanied by a running rhyme that is imbued with the joy and fine sense of fun that is typical of Marx's work. While we do find the more commonplace "B for Bear" and "Z for Zebra," Marx also includes the unusual— Ibex, Unua, Vicuna. Cuts are boldly produced and richly detailed and use "a palette of colour based on a shared love and appreciation of folk art." Casebound in a reconstruction of patterned paper designed by Marx in the 1930s. Marx—known in school days as "Marco"—approached Moss with the edition because she wanted copies for her many great-great nieces and nephews.
$285
Ibex linocut $20

Incline Press Out of Print Title:
•New Borders: The Life And Work of Elizabeth  Friedlander
•Forty Sheets to the Wind: A new Portfolio of  Old Typefaces