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Hyde Farm House, Marcham
Abingdon, Oxford, OX13 6NX

Telephone: 01865 391391

Contact name: Claire M Bolton

Email: AlembicPrs@aol.com

 

Books in our collection

Bolton, Claire. A Granjon Arabesque {Z250.3.B65 1998} edition 86/140. Location: Miniature. Colophon notes: A limited and numbered edition of 140 copies designed, printed, and bound by Claire Bolton at the Alembic Press, Hyde Farm House, Marcham, Oxford, England. Printed in part on accordion folded leaves.

Bolton, Claire. Printer's Cat Helps Illustrator: Hunter, Heather 1990 {N7433.4.L39P75 1990}edition of 250. Type: Bembo. Paper: Zerkall Ingres. Location: Miniature

Bolton, Claire. Visit to San Lazaro Illustrator: Bolton, Claire 1982 {BX2624. S29B65 1982}edition 13/120. Type: Bembo. Paper: Old Dutch Antique Printing Colophon notes: Printed on a Golding Press.

Bolton, Rebecca. Ally : The New Arrival Illustrator: Bolton, Claire 1994 {PZ7.B638A1 1994} edition 100/67. Type: Spectrum. Location: Miniature. Colophon notes: Letterpress printed on an Arab treadle press.

Lawson-Hall, Claire; Mallows, Muriel. Wytham Stream 1993 {N7433.4.L39W98 1993} edition 70/46 Type: Craw Clarenden. Paper: handmade Barcham Green. Location: Miniature.

Low, David. Dear David, Dear Graham 1989 {Z235.L68 1989} edition 250/210. Type: Spectrum. Paper: Arab Foolscap Folio, Zerkall. Colophon notes: With the Amate Press.

Maziarczyk, Claire. Miniature pastepapers 1998 {Z271.3.P37M39 1998} Location: Miniature.

Stafford, William. Writing the World 1988 {PS3537.T143W64 1988} Type: Teton. Colophon notes: Typesetting by Superior Composition Co., printed by The Paul Co. on Teton and Strathmore Grandee.

Alembic Press Bibliography, 1978-1988 1989 {Z325.A44} edition 100/90. Type: Bembo. Paper: Hahnemuhle. Colophon notes: Arab foolscap folio press. Bound by Claire Bolton.

6-line wood letter alphabets {Z250.5.W65A24 1995 v. 1-6}edition 67/100. Location: Miniature. Contents: 1. Old style italic. Type designers-- 2. Playbill. Type faces--3. Round serif. Typefounders-- 4. Sans condensed. Typographic words-- 5. Wincheser. Type casting-- 6. Sans bold italic. Parts of the press. Colophon notes: No. 1 "printed in a tent at Art in action, Waterperry in July 1995 by Claire Bolton." In a slipcase covered in marbled paper.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last update: 05/06