Throughout December we will be showing a wide variety of bookbindings by French, British, American, Dutch and German binders from Edwards of Halifax to the great Paul bontogether with Benjamin Spademan at his beautiful shop. The catalogue is available by clicking on the image above or here
The show will go on for the month at 14 Mason’s Yard. Please call ahead or email if you would like to visit.
Saatchi Gallery here we come!
I will be exhibiting in London this weekend at the London Rare Book Fair in the Saatchi Gallery in Chelsea, just near Sloane Square.
If you would like to come, you can get a complimentary ticket by clicking on this link
I am going to be showing 90 new and exciting items from the shop which can be viewed in my fair list which you can find by clicking on the image below:
Embroidered letter folder c.1820 belonging to a Sussex suffragette & founder of a free lending library
Barnett Freedman’s advertising brochure for cheese
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I will be exhibiting in Paris this weekend at the joyous rare book fair in the Grand Palais Ephemere. If you are in Paris in the next 4 days please let me know and I will make sure you get a ticket for entry either to the Vernissage on Thursday or on any of the other days.
The books I will be exhibiting can be viewed in my fair list below:
We are thrilled to announce the publication of the final part of the impressive Kenneth Auchincloss Collection of Fine Printing & Press books.
It includes work from a large number of presses including Kat Ran, Kelly-Winterton, Kleukens, Libanus, Mason Hill, Merrymount, Nonesuch, Officina Bodoni, Old School, Old Stile, Pennyroyal, Pentagram, Petrarch, Rampant Lions, Tuscany Alley, Appletree Alley, Raven, Shakespeare Head, Spiral, Stanbrook Abbey, Tern, Woolly Whale and Whittington Presses as well as several works by Rudolf Koch & Bruce Rogers amongst others.
To view the catalogue, click here
There are also around 400 less expensive books from the collection listed online, exclusively on our website…for a list of the presses to search see Books Priced under £100
We are now exhibiting a large selection of books and prints by Gaylord Schanilec dating from 1983 to the present day.
To view the catalogue please click here
Also announcing WANT MORE the remarkable new book by Gaylord Schanilec, Alex Schneideman and Patrick Randle at the Whittington Press. There are 15 deluxe copies of which we only have a couple left and 50 ordinary copies for sale…
The brochure can be viewed here
We have joined forces with Benjamin Spademan Rare Books for an exciting exhibition of prints and books at his gallery in Mason’s Yard for this year’s London Print Week
1st – 8th May 2021
Open every day
11 – 6
Click below to see the treasures we will have on display…
Exhibition list – Sophie Schneideman
Exhibition list – Benjamin Spademan
To book via the London Original Print Fair system:
Bookings
Or contact either of us directly
14 Mason’s Yard
London
SW1Y 6BU
At this time of year I am normally on a plane to Hong Kong to exhibit at one of my favourite book fairs – the China in Print or Hong Kong Antiquarian Book Fair.
I always find the finest things throughout the year and save them for the fair so I have a list of around 40 fresh books, prints and pieces of original artwork to show at the fair with a focus on the unique, rare and jewel like items from Britain and France.
Please do click on the link or picture above to see what I had saved for this year’s fair.
From 12th to the 14th November we will be showing some fresh stock at the virtual Boston Book Fair.
To see the 35 items chosen for the fair please click on the image above or here
Look out for our upcoming exhibition of the works of Gaylord Schanilec which will be launched in a fortnight, along with our new publication Want More which shows his wood engravings alongside some remarkable photographs by Alex Schneideman, the whole being printed and designed by Patrick Randle at the Whittington Press. The binding of the special copies is almost complete and copies will be available at the pre-publication price until the end of the year.
by Gaylord Schanilec, Alex Schneideman & Patrick Randle
13 photographs, 13 wood engravings
and a conversation about the creative process
Want More is a collaboration between three artist printers – the wood engraver Gaylord Schanilec, the photographer Alex Schneideman and the printer and designer Patrick Randle.
For the first time a work of photographic documentary – an important observational look at our consumerist environment and culture, has been examined and developed by a wood engraver. Photographs by Alex Schneideman for a large scale photographic project for a book, inspired 13 engravings by the great engraver and book artist Gaylord Schanilec. In images and collaborative text the two artists examine their specialist mediums – discussing the differences between them in creative process, temperament and thought, each creating very different images from the same source.
The book was woven together by the great eye and design of the master printer Patrick Randle at the Whittington Press in a glorious celebration of art, letterpress printing and typographic design.
For information about the edition please click here.
Edition:
55 copies for sale (of 75) in a gold slipcase, in grey half morocco and with special hand printed papers by Randle and Schneideman – £950
15 deluxe copies in full grey and citron leather, with additional signed sets of the engravings and photographs housed in a solander box – £2650
There is an accommodation available for trade.
EMAIL sophie@ssrbooks.com to order
Here are some more images of the printing process..
The three collaborators
Printing the wood engravings
Well, here we go! Moving the business online was something I thought I would never do but until June/July at least that is how things will be. It is an interesting experiment.
Every week I will be uploading new stock onto the website, and indeed on biblio.com and abebooks.com. I will also be putting together curated ‘e-lists’ of fresh stock – look out for ones of new David Jones prints and books, books written by ‘Great Scots’, and a whole new catalogue of recently acquired books.
Of course we will get through this, but I am hoping it will be fun. I have already found books I had forgotten I had here and have a pile of projects to finish. I do enjoy face to face interaction but that will have to wait for now…
I hope you are safe and well. If you are musically orientated the Berlin Philharmonic website with their free digital concerts is a real treat!
Very best and see you soon
Sophie