Archives of the Fleece Press

Item date: 1978 - 88
Grant Value: 7,500
Item cost: 29,000
Item date acquired: 1998
Item institution: Manchester Metropolitan University, Library
Town/City: Manchester
County: Lancashire

Simon Lawrences Fleece Press specialise in the combined printing of letter press and woodblocks. The archive contains 50 boxes of material on each book produced with hand-crafted albums of proof pages. There is also correspondence from leading figures in the late 20th century fine press world such as John Randle, Will Carter, Michael Harvey and Ward Ritchie. Illustrated at P.50 of AR