The Reading Room Press

A Selection of Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

The Bodleian Library's 2016 call to letterpress printers to choose and print a Shakespeare sonnet led to Paul Kershaw cutting the capital letter L for me. The result can be seen in the ‘News’ section. The lino block had smouldered in my archive until a persistent breeze fanned it back into life. 

There are twelve sonnets, each of which is set in a different typeface. Bound in quarter cloth by Ludlow Bookbinders using a hand-made paper from The Paper Foundation and paste patterned at Atelier GK Florence. 

There are 50 copies 

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