The Reading Room Press

BOOKS

Copies of those with an image alongside are available to purchase.
For all others the edition is sold out.

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An Advertiser’s Alphabet ~ A.S.J. Tessimond

 Introduction by Mel Gooding, 2014 


On Collecting Books and Printing Them Too ~ Viscount Carlow, Introduction Paul Nash, 2013 


The Historiated Initials from The Farmer’s Year ~ Introduction by

Simon Brett, 2013 


The Bellman’s Return ~ Miles Wigfield, 2012 


Out of Context ~ T. E. Lawrence, 2012


Night Club Girl ~ A.S.J. Tessimond, 2011 


T.E.Lawrence and Sigfried Sassoon, A Friendship ~ Dennis Silk, 2010 


White Hawthorn ~ Words and music by Robin Walker, 2009 


Playground Football ~ T. E. Lawrence, 2007


Alpha Knot-garden ~ Sussana Blackshaw, 2006


Horoscope for Diane ~ A.S.J. Tessimond, 2005


A Letter to Edmund Gosse ~ Forrest Reid, 2004 



Illustrators, chiefly wood engravers, have included:

Edward Ardizzone, Thomas Bewick, Simon Brett, George Buday, Ian Corfe-Stephens, David Dobson, Eric Kennington, Paul Kershaw, Clare Leighton, Jane Lydbury, Miriam Macgregor, Thijs Mauve, Ceri Richards, and Jim Westergard.  

Parliament of Owls ~ Miles Wigfield, 2024

Prufrock Revisited ~ Stephen Boswell, 2024

Ha'nacker Mill ~ Hilaire Belloc, 2024

A Selection of Sonnets ~ William Shakespeare, 2023

The Hunting of the Snark ~ Lewis Carroll, 2022  

Bewick’s Matchem ~ Jenny Uglow and Nigel Tattersfield, 2021 

Thirty More Years, 

Wood-engraved bookplates 1990-1920 ~ Simon Brett, 2020 


Count Arnold ~ Walter Shewring, 2019 


Liquor and Literature, Letters to John Lewis ~ Edward Ardizzone, Introduction Alan Powers, 2018 


Rotterdam Wood Engravings ~ Thijs Mauve, 2017


Cricket on the Beach ~ MFW after Robin Blackburn, 2016 


A Play (or Opera) founded on The Song of Solomon ~ Forrest Reid,  Introduction Colin Cruise, 2016 


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