Never before have original leaves from such high points been gathered together in a single volume, and it is unlikely they will ever be again. They will be accompanied by David’s informative and authoritative commentary, much praised in the first volume. The book makes an ideal companion to the first volume, and together they cover perhaps the epitome of fifty years of the British private press movement from Kelmscott on.

This is a unique opportunity to acquire original leaves from a selection of the books of the major British fine presses that flourished after the First World War. Each of the editions of Pages from Presses II includes significantly more leaves than in the first volume, many of them in large formats and on hand-made papers. It will, like its predecessor, be a handsome volume in its own right, generous in format to show the largest leaves from the Presses without folding. It will be printed in the elegant 14-Didot size of Walbaum for which the Press owns one of the rare sets of matrices [a change from Volume One which was printed from the smaller 14-point]. The paper is a special making of Czech Losin hand-made [also used in the prospectus] which features the Whittington Press pressmark for the only time. It is likely that this will be the last letterpress printed book published by the Whittington Press.

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40 copies with a generous selection of 19 original specimen leaves from the seven Presses. Some of the leaves have wood-engravings, or other illustrations and initials in a second colour, and several are double leaves, showing four pages. Bound in half Nigerian Goatskin and marbled paper by Christopher Rowlatt, in a slipcase.