The ideal way to document everything produced by a press is to do it yourself, so I am delighted that the Fleece Press Bibliography is now coming in small batches from the binders. Compiled by John Hodgson and myself, all 106 books and about 250 pieces of ephemera are carefully listed, with additional commentaries for each book and for many of the ephemeral entries. There is also my introductory essay, and I am honoured to have a Foreword by Sebastian Carter, whose long and distinguished career at the Rampant Lions Press, and much more besides, enables him to write with authority on private press publishing matters.

All Around the Block is published in a total edition of 300 copies. For over 40 years I have saved spare sheets from books, offcuts of patterned papers, and ephemeral pieces with a careful plan to include them with the Bibliography, and has been included in the versions below; you can be certain that the last Fleece Press book is just exceptional.

The book itself is the same for all three editions, quarter-bound in cloth and stunning marbled paper sides made by Antonio Vélez Celemin. Each copy includes original tipped-in examples, including book pages, individual engravings, patterned papers and ephemeral items.

All Around the Block: the three editions

(A) 210 standard copies of the book. 312 pages, about 45 tip-ins. Quarter bound in cloth and a truly stunning custom-marbled paper made in Madrid by Antonio Vélez Celemin, whose last major commission this has been, coinciding with the final Fleece Press book. Price £310 plus £16 postage.

(B) 63 copies of the book as above (60 for sale), accompanied by a guard album quarter-bound in 1980s Clare Maziarczyk paste-paper; 36 leaves displaying about 40 pieces of original tipped-in material - pages from books, patterned papers, and some lovely pieces of ephemera. Now fully subscribed.

(C) 33 special copies (30 for sale) of the book as above, accompanied by a guard album with a total of 72 leaves including most of the contents of the album in (B) above, but also displaying at least 40 extra items (which were deliberately saved, but only in packets of 30 or so). Now fully subscribed.

Trade discount is 10% on each edition of this publication.

To order this book, please email me at simon@fleecepress.com (the button below can be used if you have email set up on your device’s Mail app) or call me on 01226 792200.