RORER, Abigail & MACGREGOR, Miriam. THE LONE OAK PRESS. ~ St. Bartholomew’s, Whittington: A Cotswold Church.
Introduction by Giles Browne. 22 wood engravings and captions by Miriam Macgregor & Abigail Rorer. No. XX of 40 special copies, bound in oasis leather with a portfolio of signed prints, one of which is hand coloured. Set in 14 point Van Dijck by Neil Winter and printed by Patrick Randle on Zerkall mould-made paper. Oblong 8vo., bound at the Fine Bindery to a design by Abigail Rorer in full Oasis tan and brown morocco in the pattern of the elaborate hinge on St Bartholomew’s Church door, patterned paper endpapers, with the extra portfolio of prints in a red cloth backed patterned paper covered folder, all housed in a red cloth clamshell box with printed paper spine label.
Abigail Rorer is a much respected American wood engraver and publisher of limited edition and fine press books using her own artwork. She was drawn to wood engraving through the work of the German Expressionists and Leonard Baskin and after initial encouragement from Barry Moser, she taught herself how to engrave. She established her Lone Oak Press in 1989.
Here she pays tribute to the great English fine press, The Whittington Press, and its beautiful surroundings in the Cotswolds, working alongside Miriam Macgregor the great English wood engraver who lives in Whittington and did so much work with the Whittington Press. In addition it was set and printed in Whittington by Patrick Randle at his Nomad Press.