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		On the Visionary Work and Revolutionary Life of an Idle Idol: William Morris by John Mitchinson In a life of only 62 years William Morris managed to be poet, painter, engraver, weaver, dyer, designer, printer, retailer and revolutionary, sometimes all at once. Littered with great quotes and anecdotes, Mitchinson's polemic illustrates how Morris, the compulsive over-achiever, is such a great inspiration to those concerned with downshifting and kicking our tawdry, dull culture into touch. The edition is two-hundred hand bound and numbered copies, 8 x 5 1/2 inches, 24 pages, letterpress printed on Zerkall 145gsm mould made paper, quarter-bound in the Morris style, white linen spine with Ingres covered boards. £25.00

		And Now It Rains A Series of Poems by Penny Rimbaud Illustrated by the author 'This is extra-ordinary poetry written outside the ordinary, in the language of the soul, of "flight silhouetted in the primal". Defiant, tender and furious, it is a love-song, a death-song, and a song of courage. It is an expression of the unconditional, absolute authenticity of the human spirit (the "riderless wildness of soul") and the ferocious need of the soul to be untrammelled by the "unfathomable arrogance of enclosure." It is also a plea for the spirit wanting nothing other than to be. The work is dedicated to the purity of passion: the passion which despises compromise, which burns the fences of enclosure, which yearns not only for its own fulfillment but to fulfillment itself.' 142mm x 100mm, 128 pages, sewn-sections, laser copied on Strathmore Natural White 118gsm wove paper. Hand bound softcover in Fabriano Murillo 260gsm green card with letterpress printed spine and book plate. Signed & hand numbered Edition of 100 £20

		'Vision' by Scorpio 851 VISION is not merely a book of words, it is a book of spiritual light. The spiritual light within the pages is governed by a higher form of consciousness. Shall we say that, as in quantum physics, the words know when they are being observed and they respond accordingly, knowing who is looking at them. When you read this book, the spiritual light touches you in accordance with how much of it you are ready to receive. See how it changes you. 130mm x 130mm, 480 pages, laser printed on Becket Expression Prairie 118gsm wove stock, casebound in deep red velveteen with two-colour foil-blocking. Red/gold/ cream headband with red, black & gold marker ribbons. Presented in a black slipcase. Published in editions of 13 copies Signed, numbered & personalised 1st Edition - Nos.1-13 SOLD OUT 2nd Edition – Nos.14-26 £160.00 [inc. P&P within UK]

		The Sound of Stones in the Glass House by Christian Brett & Gee Vaucher Special artists' edition documenting the text featured in The Sound of the Stones in the Glass House exhibition premiered at 96 Gillespie gallery, October 2006. 430mm x 180mm, 54 pages, single-sided lasercopy print on Strathmore Writing Natural White 118gsm wove, thesis bound in black buckram with trace flyleaves and ribbon marker. This edition comes with a set of photographs of the installation along with an envelope of seeds, white balloon & tag and letterpress printed ephemera. In an edition of 10 copies, signed & hand-numbered SOLD OUT

		"Cxnsxrshxp by Xmxssxxn xnd thx Xcxnxmxcs xf Trxth" by Christian Brett 136mm x 210mm, 56 pages, digital laser print on Strathmore Writing Natural White 118gsm wove stock. Casebound in black buckram with letterpress printed bookplate and ribbon marker. In an edition of 10 signed and hand-numbered copies. SOLD OUT ‘The essence of success in war is secrecy’ Taking the 'Censorship' pamphlet to its extreme.

		"A Little Book of Illustrations from the novel This Crippled Flesh" by Alice Smith from a text by Penny Rimbaud with typography by Christian Brett 155mm x 110mm, 24 pages, digital inkjet print on Beckett Expression candlelight 216gsm and 118gsm wove papers with tipped-in illustrations. Concertina structured hardback ribbon-tied book with envelope. Printed, assembled and bound by the artist. In an edition of 20 hand-numbered copies. Signed by the artist. SOLD OUT ‘A Little Book of Illustrations from the novel This Crippled Flesh’ presents visuals and extracts from the fragmented narratives and themes explored within the novel. Over the last twelve months a couple of casebound editions of the 384 page novel, typeset by Christian Brett, have appeared in group shows in Manchester and London and will be exhibited in Pennsylvania, Costa Rica and Mexico City during 2006. Rimbaud’s manuscript is currently under consideration by American publishers. “This unpublished manuscript, in part biographical, is driven by the existential philosophy of its author, confronting its reader with an uneasy mixture of poetic profundity and pornographic banality. Central to the book’s theme is the use of the Holocaust as a smoke-screen behind which the American State is able to conceal its aggressive proliferation of global capitalist interests. However, within all its pornography and politics, at the book’s core is a lust of life and a heart which skips to the rhythms of jazz. A true example of close collaboration between author, typographer and designer this is a multi-layered tour-de-force, sharing coffee and cigarettes with the writings of Beckett, Burroughs and Ginsberg. ‘This Crippled Flesh’ is the jazz novel for the 21st century.” – exhibition statement for full 384 page handbound edition of This Crippled Flesh, September 2005

		"WOMeN & MEN– An illustrative study of corporeality" by Alice Smith 150mm x 210mm, 28 pages, digital inkjet print on Beckett Expression candlelight 216gsm & 118gsm wove papers with tipped-in illustrations. Concertina structure within a quarter-bound book in black and red buckram with black lace tie. Printed, assembled and bound by the artist. In an edition of 10 hand-numbered copies. Signed. SOLD OUT An eclectic range of source materials and literature inspires the illustrations, drawing on issues and observations of stereotypical behaviour and the performances of women and men, with sexual and perverse undertones. These illustrations are of an adult nature. “The ‘WOMeN & MEN’ illustrations explore somatic and corporal issues, using pornographic aesthetics, to communicate, and seduce the viewer. I work with photomontage, as it is an effective method of compiling many messages, signs and connotations associated with the fragmenting issues and history of femininity and body politics, into one composition. This process has become a means to form a dialogue, discussion and confrontation, enhancing the physicality of and interaction with the image and messages. My illustrations have been inspired by readings of Sigmund Freud’s essays on Hysteria, Female Sexuality, Psychoanalysis, and The Uncanny, and Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch and The Whole Woman, and This Crippled Flesh, an unpublished manuscript by Penny Rimbaud.” – Alice Smith, November 2005

		"Disconnected" by Christian Brett 154mm x 156mm, 76 pages, six-section sewn, digital inkjet print on Strathmore Writing natural white 118gsm wove paper with single sheet mirror and trace paper sewn-in. Quarter-bound in black buckram with letterpress text on uncovered front/back boards. Printed, sewn and bound by the artist. In an edition of 20 numbered copies. Signed SOLD OUT An uncomfortable, pointed and occasionally funny, typographic stream of consciousness text. Whilst pissing on the doorstep of Saatchi & Saatchi, the text kicks against ideas of relationship, the internet, reality tv, nostalgia, fakery, branding/blanding, boredom, drugs and isolation.