Directed
by Peter Wells
publishes
the work of poets of the 1940s
It
engages with the talents of the numerous craftspeople who make
books - printers, typographers, papermakers, and bookbinders -
together with illustrators and the authors of the text, to produce
limited editions of poetry.
Peter Wells (for biographical details, click
here)
made his first book when he printed Poetry Folios (issue no.1)
on an Albion handpress at the Adelphi Centre in 1942. More than
fifty years later The One Time Press was established to continue
the work of publishing poetry of the 1940s in small editions using
letterpress, offset printing and high quality paper in collaboration
with a professional printer, John Harding of Francis Cupiss Ltd.
Diss in Norfolk. The freedom to design and edit books and to print
poetry which made an innovative and imaginative contribution to
English literature during those war years when such things were
a very low priority have provided the motivation to carry forward
this project. The use of coloured papers by Ann Muir and Victoria
Hall have helped to make the commissioning of bindings by Chris
Hicks, Tim Wiltshire and others a particular pleasure. The books
contain woodcut and other illustrations and may not be repeated
in exactly the same way from one volume to another. To view Prospectus
click here.
