John Betjeman

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I mean, look at that cream, look at that custard Detail from Pie Rows, 1962

...or Wafer texts.

Kurt Schwitters Untitled collage 1929

Text wafers.

Over the past 50 years, the artist John Smith has built up a body of work at once disarming and tender; one that, above all else, makes us think about how we see the world and our place within it artreview.com/being-the-on...

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"Perforated for-edge and embossed title / miter saw cut head and foot"—cutting through the pages. RAGE PEN by David Blackmore & Michael Hampton folium.site/shop/p/david-blackmore-michael-hampton-rage-pen

Agnes Martin. The Islands, 1961

"Perforated for-edge and embossed title / miter saw cut head and foot"—cutting through the pages. RAGE PEN by David Blackmore & Michael Hampton folium.site/shop/p/david-blackmore-michael-hampton-rage-pen

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A new [non]uniformbook: done Colin Sackett “Concatenation of lettering… an enchaining of individual letters which eliminates the discrete entity of the word they construct… aka scriptura continua” —Michael Hampton “riddledwithtypos” —Anon. uniformbooks.co.uk/done.php

A new [non]uniformbook: done Colin Sackett “Concatenation of lettering… an enchaining of individual letters which eliminates the discrete entity of the word they construct… aka scriptura continua” —Michael Hampton “riddledwithtypos” —Anon. uniformbooks.co.uk/done.php

Wooden book.

A PLACE IN THE TEAM (1953)

Handwritten papers.

And this is NUTS: the optophonic piano by Vladimir Baranoff Rossiné, a box with a small keyboard at one end and a circular projector at the other. Demonstrated in Moscow & Paris in the 1920s

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An opening from the London Polyglot Bible (1653-57) showing a passage from Leviticus in nine languages. Wimborne Minster Library

BOTD in 1925 the artist Ian Hamilton Finlay. Here's a vanishingly modest bookmark from his Wild Hawthorn Press (left) and an homage by Colin Sackett (right)

Ian Hamilton Finlay, photograph by John Stathatos, early 1980s.

Andrew Ray has been writing his 'Some Landscapes' blog for twenty years now, covering landscape-related topics and a wide range of visual and literary associations. Here he has gathered posts on the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay to mark the day of the artist's centenary.

'English Coloured Papers' Poems by Simon Cutts / Papers by Colin Sackett After some years copies will be available again at the Small Publishers Fair. Uniformbooks, Table 3, Small Publishers Fair Conway Hall, Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October #supportsmallpublishers #smallpublishersfair2025

'English Coloured Papers' Poems by Simon Cutts / Papers by Colin Sackett After some years copies will be available again at the Small Publishers Fair. Uniformbooks, Table 3, Small Publishers Fair Conway Hall, Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October #supportsmallpublishers #smallpublishersfair2025

Table 3—as well as a selection of Uniformbooks, we will have some new and some old [non]uniformbooks. #smallpublishersfair25

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Richter's clouds. www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/...

Poison pages.

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Typographer and publisher Robin Kinross, whose critical standards are always high, and rightly so, writes about the design and production of Fitzcarraldo's books.

We’ll have a handful of these at the Small Publishers Fair next weekend.

"A book of rivers, birds and men A wealth of error, of changing naming At the suggestion of a poet of today." Friday 3.00pm—John Bevis talks about and reads from his new collection of found poetry, 'A Surrey Naturalist'.

In the new art, language is not the starting point of the creative activity, knowing the alphabet is enough.

150 year old communication technology snapped with an iphone camera and distributed worldwide in a couple of seconds

Uniformbooks will be at the Small Publishers Fair next Fri 24 & Sat 25, with a selection of our titles. If there are any you'd especially like, please email in the next few days ([email protected]) and we'll make sure we bring them along for you. @smallpublishers.bsky.social uniformbooks.co.uk

Uniformbooks will be at the Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social on Fri 24 and Sat 25, with a selection of our titles—if there are any you'd especially like, please email in the next few days ([email protected]) and we'll make sure we bring them along for you. uniformbooks.co.uk

Programmes! Pick up a free one at Small Publishers Fair in @conwayhall.bsky.social next week, Fri 24+Sat 25 October. Or take a look now here tinyurl.com/3p427jpj for the 66 publishers, Erica Van Horn exhibition and readings, launches and talks. All free.

In the old art, a page may not be an element of a structure, here begins the new art of making books.

Cardboard research.

Pictorial.

New Malden Library, Kingston upon Thames 1939-41 A.R. Goldthorp and F.C. Otton bit.ly/472v2in

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Balloon!

Kurt Schwitters Untitled 1937 Prob. made in Norway where in Jan 1937 Kurt followed his son Ernst into exile, the Nazis having begun confiscating his work from German museums. '1920' on the mount was a misattribution by the gallerist to whom Ernst sold several of Schwitters' pictures in the 1950s

Handmade index tabs.

John Bevis, 'Cloud Study'; Dymo tape edition, 1981. “There is always a danger that the use of any system of names based on types shall lead to the neglect of everything not typical.”—Arthur W. Clayden, Cloud Studies, 1905.