The Compendium, in Full.
The Press maintains a short list. At present the list holds one Deck; further issues will be set when their plates are ready and not before.
Each title is taken from a Victorian illustrated volume in the public commons and reissued in a small, hand-numbered impression.
Floral Fantasy Deck
Fifty-two playing cards after Walter Crane.
A working pack of fifty-two cards drawn from Crane's A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden. Face cards carry the volume's plates with a line of Crane's verse; number cards run in watercolour pips. Hand-numbered to three hundred.
- Stock
- 300 gsm cotton, linen-grain emboss
- Five-colour offset, with soft gilt accent
- Issue
- Hand-numbered to three hundred Decks
- Box
- Uncoated paper-board, brass-foil mark
On What Is to Follow.
No second title is yet announced. The Press will set the next book when its plates have been chosen and its proofs are honest.
Talk in the bindery turns occasionally to a small bestiary after Tenniel; to Beardsley's marginal drawings, set as bookplates; to a deck of the Tarot drawn from the Pre-Raphaelite painters. None of these are promised.
Subscribers receive a short letter when the press-bed is dressed; until then, the catalogue holds only the one Deck.
The Press, by hand.