ENGLISH PRIVATE PRESSES

THERE is a good deal to in' terest Catholics, even those who are not connoisseurs of fine printing, in the current Exhibition of English Private Presses 1757 to 1961, which was opened at The Times Bookshop, 42 Wigmore Street, London. WI. by Sir Francis Meynell, R.D.I.. founder of The Nonesuch Press. The Stanbrook Abbey Press is represented by its first book, a folio Rilude of which only twelve copies were printed, in 1876; and by the press's most recent publication, the lovely quarto edition of Siegfried Sassoon's selected poems. One of the most beautiful books from H. D. C. Pepler's St. Dominic's Press at Ditchling, Francis Thompson'e " The Mistress of Vision," printed on the remaining sheets of a paper specially made for William Morris, is on view: and the Carmelite Fathers' St. Albert's Press shows its latest publication, the poems of Wrenne Jarman.
Also shown is the splendid Golden Cockerel Press Canterbury Tales" of Chaucer, with Eric Gill's engravings. The catalogue of the exhibition, listing and describing 95 items, and with an introduction by John Carter, is itself a desirable edition to any library. The exhibition remains open for the next two or three ss cek s Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5.30 p.m.