Species artist's bookThe first artists book from Mostly Flat. A typographic exploration of the species found at upper, middle and lower shores on Bucks Mills beach in North Devon. The perfect gift for the marine biologist in your life! Or for those who simply love the sea and appreciate the wonderfully evocative names of the species. Set by hand from metal type and letterpress printed on a treadle platen press in Ludlow. The edition is limited to 75 hand sewn copies. 16

of which five are for sale here

what farms are those

It’s a fascinating thing to explore

and though not all the jokes have aged well it still makes me laugh now

Yeats poem on a one-day letterpress workshop

There midnight’s all a glimmer

Let me lie abed and rest:

fluorescent pink and fluorescent yellow inks onto tactile 100% recycled grey card

Set by hand from metal type and letterpress printed on a treadle platen press in Ludlow

The layouts are composed from modular metal ornaments of various geometric designs (dots

We ran out of time to put the type away at the end of the day (it was rather an ambitious project for a one-day two-person workshop)

What are those blue remembered hills