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FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Saturday, 22 June 2024 from 6pm to 8pm. Talks by Zoom have been well attended and this event is being held on Eventbrite. Graphic artist Daniel Mitsui of Indiana speaks about his work. Contact the Secretary to obtain a link or go to Eventbrite webpage.

October 2024 (date to be announced) AGM by Zoom.

October 2024 (date to be announced) Auction 101.

Ever since 2021, when our meetings and publications programmes were badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, we have wished to get back to holding some meetings in person rather than always relying on virtual meetings on the internet, but this has not been possible. Perhaps we can at some point devise a compelling reason for members to gather in person at our London venue: Lower Meeting Room, Wesley's Chapel, 49 City Road, London EC1Y 1AU.
This is located in the City of London, between Old Street (Northern Line) and Moorgate tube stations. We must leave the Wesley centre by 3.50pm. Click to see how to get there.

AUTUMN 2018 ISSUE OF THE BOOKPLATE JOURNAL
This journal now been issued to members thanks to collaboration with our recently recruited book designer. Editorial work is under way on a succession of journals, with the aim of eventually catching up the backlog.

Simon Brett “THIRTY MORE YEARS” Bookplates 1990-2020
Published by The Reading Room Press, 190 copies set in Perpetua and printed on an Albion on Zerkall paper. Case-bound in quarter cloth with a patterned paper incorporating the plate deemed, by mutual accord, to be the best from these thirty more years. Of the sixty-eight bookplates cut by Simon Brett since 1990, thirty-four are reproduced, all but two printed from the wood. The trees and sailing ship pictorial for printer Miles Wigfield was an inevitable selection. The two previous books about Simon's ex-libris (Klaus Rodel, Frederikshavn, 1982 and Fleece Press 1989) were by the late Brian North Lee, that doyen of the genre. Here, at the instigation of the printer, the text is by the artist himself. Stop Press: A proof of plate no.150, Bryan Welch Et in Arcadia Ego, printed and signed by the artist, will be tipped in to the first 100 copies ordered. Orders to Dr Miles Wigfield, Coneygar Lodge, Quenington. Glos. GL7 5BZ (T: 01285 750662 E: miles.wigfield AT btopenworld.com ).

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