Wordage
Colin Sackett
The separate sections of this book were written during the twenty years up until 2011; the allotted prose parts
are now butted together to make a consecutive set. The process of writing was variously prescriptive and artificial:
transcription from manuscript or speech, via word processing and assembly, to the final format of a single leaflet
or booklet. Subsequently, most have been published again, reformatted as ‘online texts’, where in each case what
was a paged sequence has become a scrollable depth—a vertical and bottomless page.
64pp, 234 x 142, sewn paperback, 2011, £9.00
ISBN 978 0 9568559 3 0
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Anticipatory history
Edited by Caitlin DeSilvey, Simon Naylor & Colin Sackett
Acclimatisation, Adaptation, Art, Aspic, Besanded, Birds, Catastrophe, Coastal squeeze, Collection, Commons,
Continuities, Cycle of erosion, Discontinuity, Dream-map, Ebb and flood, Enclosure, Entropy, Epiphany,
Equilibrium, Erosion, Extinction, Futurology, Introductions, Liminal zone, Living landscapes, Longue durée,
Managed realignment, Memory, Monitoring, Moor, Museum, Natural history, Natural selection, Nature writing,
Palliative curation, Place, Presentism, Record, Recording, Rewilding, Rhododendron, Sculpture trail, Shifting
baseline syndrome, Story-radar, Temprocentrism, Tides, Uncertainty, Unfarming, Woods, Zone of exclusion.
80pp, 234 x 142, sewn paperback, 2011, £9.00
ISBN 978 0 9568559 2 3
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Observer’s Marginalia
Colin Sackett
A sequence of photographs of the marginalia added to a copy of The Observer’s Book of British Wild Flowers
published in 1937. Two hundred species of plants are shown and described, one per page, of which eighty-two
have been recorded on one hundred and fourteen occasions. The entries are made in black, blue, and green
ink, and pencil. Fully indexed, with an introductory essay, ‘The Observer’, by John Bevis.
64pp, 140 x 88, sewn paperback, 2011, £8.00
ISBN 978 0 9568559 0 9
English Coloured Papers
Simon Cutts & Colin Sackett
“I've made new scans of the backs and fronts of the swatches. I'm not completely convinced by the tallness of
the proportion—taken from the things themselves—rather than what might be ‘a good shape for a page’. What
i do like is the offering of the possibility of choosing a paper, as you might the actual material itself... your poems
parallel with the colour sequence 40–53 that i've put together over the 28 pages. It's moving towards a much
more straightforward book, rather than an elaborate construction that i first thought.”
28pp, 150 x 105, cloth and paper-covered flush-trimmed boards; edition of 300 copies, 2009, £12.00
40 | 46
Some Early Toys by Ian Hamilton Finlay
Janet Boulton
“Finlay’s toys are probably the least known of his works, yet they exemplify crucial qualities inherent in his
life’s work—the stripping away of detail or exposition; the distillation of ideas which nevertheless holds scope
for the imagination. These apparently simple toys offer another avenue to the heart of a consumate and prolific
artist’s preoccupations and methods.” (From the commentary by Jessie Sheeler)
Janet Boulton’s seven watercolour drawings have been reproduced on Canaletto Liscia and the book printed
and bound in a numbered edition of 220 copies.
24pp, 260 x 215, cloth and paper-covered flush-trimmed boards; 2009, £45.00
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River Axe Crossings
A visual survey along the course of the river
The River Axe flows through Dorset, Somerset and Devon, rising near Beaminster, flowing west then south
by Axminster and joining the English Channel at Axmouth near Seaton. During its thirty-five kilometre course
it is fed by various streams and by the tributary rivers Yarty and Coly.
Taken during the period November 2007 to March 2008, the photographs look directly upstream and down-
stream from the centre of each of all the forty-one extant crossings, ranging variously from plain wooden beam,
to stone arch, to concrete road bridge; excluded are weirs, railway bridges, and crossings by ford or stepping
stones. From the front of the book the right-hand page sequence shows the direction from mouth to source,
while from the back the left-hand sequence is downstream with the river’s flow.
With 84 full-page plates and descriptive texts, introduction and diagrammatic aerial view.
96pp, 147 x 218; 2008. Signed casebinding £32.00 | paperback £7.95
ISBN 978 0 9537048 9 7 hbk | ISBN 978 0 9537048 8 0 pbk
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The Complete Guide to Lyme Regis
An A to Z of the Town, Landscape and Coastline
This alphabetical guide is intended for the general, inquisitive visitor—both as a practical directory of what
the area has to offer, and to make available straightforward background information on the unique variety
of natural and human history that is here.
Exploring the Town; Museums & Entertainment; Outdoor Activities; Eating & Drinking; Shopping; History;
People; Where to Stay, and things you might need; Further Afield, and much more.
With a town map, photographs throughout and full-colour cover.
32pp, 220 x 150; pamphlet. First published 2004; revised edition 2008, £3.00
ISBN 978 0 9537048 7 3
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Direct from Nature
The Photographic Work of Richard & Cherry Kearton
John Bevis
In 1892 Richard and Cherry Kearton took the first ever photograph of a bird’s nest with eggs. Realising the
camera’s potential to reveal secrets of the natural world, they resolved to make the best possible records of
their discoveries in the habits and behaviour of birds and other creatures. Three years of field work resulted
in the first nature book to be illustrated entirely with photographs.
Numerous natural history photographers have proclaimed them as founding fathers of their discipline; none,
however, of the thirty-odd volumes published in their lifetimes is now in print. This new study examines the
methods and procedures behind their work, and reproduces a selection of the remarkable photographs that
they proudly advertised as having been taken ‘direct from nature’.
With 40 full-page plates, illustrated Biographical Commentary.
64pp, 210 x 140; sewn paperback. 2007, £9.00
ISBN 978 0 9537048 6 6
The True Line
The Landscape Diagrams of Geoffrey Hutchings
Geoffrey Hutchings published just a handful of books, all addressing the search for geographical and
topographical truths, and for the ways of recording and depicting these truths precisely and economically
by the handwritten word and line.
In addition to his contribution to the development of the teaching of field studies in Britain in the late 1940s,
with its emphasis on the direct observation and interpretation of landscape, he achieved a masterly
ability to ‘read’ and transcribe a place in a graphic composition—be it a sketch-map or a plan, a tabular
profile or a section, or an annotated panoramic drawing. In all of these compositions he integrated line and
text in a perfect balance of brevity and detail.
With 50 half-page plates, illustrated Biographical Commentary.
40pp, 210 x 140; sewn paperback. 2006, £9.00
ISBN 978 0 9537048 5 9
Englshpublshing
Writing and readings 1991–2002
Colin Sackett
“Since the 1980s, Colin Sackett, a book artist, designer and printer based in Axminster, has been publishing
books which take peripheral information as a source material, and rejuvenate it so as to make it newly
intelligible and vital. Sources as diverse as book indexes, Ordnance Survey maps, watercress labels and radio
commentaries are singled out. These texts are edited and rearranged, sifted and panned and sieved, so that
language comes to the surface new and raw and untarnished. The art here is typographical, and the end
product of these explorations is a backlist of impeccable publications of simplicity and plainness.
Englshpublshing sees a body of work published discretely in the 1990s, with essays, commentaries and
unpublished pieces, compiled into a single volume with a standardised format.” (John Bevis)
96pp, 216 x 145; paperback. Coracle, Tipperary / Sixtus, Limoges / Spacex, Exeter 2004, £8.95
ISBN 0 906630 21 5 in the UK
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