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The Happy Dragons' Press - Shop Online
Limited edition poetry and letterpress supplies- Poetry
All our available books of poetry - The Composing Room Stores
Buy letterpress printing supplies online- @ Signs
Little packs of at signs - Borders
A passion for many of our customers - Brass Rule
Assorted or cut to length - Goody Packs
A selection from our range - Lay Quads
Position your paper the easy way - Leads
Cut to length, with squeeze allowance - Make Ready Tissue
Just what you need for tissuing up - Quoins
Reliable quoins in value packs - Quotes
Bargain quotations to fill that white space - Rubber Side Sticks
Side support for dodgy justification - Second Hand Books
Some books about printing - Spacing
Five point sizes, five widths - Specials
How about a Harrild treadle platen or perhaps some Hempel quoins? - Swiss Style Packing
For the best impression - Symbols Sets
Maths signs and paragraph marks
- @ Signs
- Printing Tips
For fellow printers- Tips &Articles
A growing collection of articles- Brass Rule Tips
Printing and scoring with brass rules - Buying a Treadle Platen
Don't get caught with wiggly bearings! - Compose Yourself
John Southward's thoughts on composing room behaviour - Founders Type Alignments
Point Common Line, Point Title Line and Point Art Line - Lead Trouble
The two schools of thought on cutting leads - Lino-cutting Tips
Cutting deeper for letterpress, choosing tools, and more... - Matting Paste Recipe
Make a bees wax matting paste - Nipping Press Mystery
What is a nipping press and where you can buy one? - Shakespeare & Foul Cases
William Blades talks 'foul cases'
- Brass Rule Tips
- Getting Started
Letterpress beginners start here!- The Lay of the Case
Finding your way around a typecase - Composition
Start setting type - Justification & Spacing
What's the secret of justification? - Basic Justification Table
Quick reference for justifying - Imposition
Preparing the forme for printing - Position: Without Lay Bar
Get your paper in position using lay quads –for presses without lay bars - Position: With Lay Bar
Get your paper in position using lay quads – for presses with lay bars - Block Mounting
Mounting nylon blocks or lino-cuts, ready for printing - Paper
Not sure what sort of paper you need? - Introduction to Ink
Linseed-oil based inks; how they're made and how they behave - Ink Driers
Persuading linseed-oil based inks to dry - Transparent Medium
That oh-so-popular ink base - Recommended Reading
Some useful books on printing, bookbinding and design - Selling Your Work
Is there money to be made?
- The Lay of the Case
- Product Guides
More information about some of the things we sell - Where Can I Find…
Find the letterpress supplies you need- Advice &Organisations
Organisations and websites that offer help, advice and sympathy! - Block Makers
Nylon or metal, line or halftone blocks - Ink &Hand Rollers
Inks, driers, hand rollers and inking slabs - Lino &Wood Cutting
Quality lino, wood blocks and tools - Museums
Find museums and displays near you with our interactive map - Our Sorts Service
Out of sorts? Borrow a few characters from us - Paper &Book Binding
Our favourite papers and some bookbinding suppliers - Rollers & Adana Parts
Rollers for various presses and parts for Adanas - Quoin Keys
We've tracked down quoin keys in two sizes. - Second Hand Type
Suggested sources and cautionary tales - Type Founders – Supertype
Brand new card founts. - Type Founders – Other
Monotype display sizes and composition matter.
- Advice &Organisations
- Quizzes & Things
Test your knowledge, explore the web, or get domestic- Apron & Accessories
A traditional green baize apron pattern - Beginners Quiz
Our easiest quiz - Elsewhere On The Web...
Blogs and videos from the UK letterpress community - Idioms
Does 'Out of Sorts' really originate from the composing room? - Spacing Sums Quiz
How many points wide is an 18pt Thick? - Printing History Quiz
A longer quiz with a broader appeal - Type Lice
Pyroglyphidae Typographicus: detection and control
- Apron & Accessories
- Tips &Articles
- What is Letterpress?
One of our most popular pages! - Bibliography
All our books so far this century- ‘New Garland’ Series
Collections of poetry - ‘Dragon Poems in Translation’
Single poems with an English translation - Our Artists
All our artists to date - ‘A Place to Live’ by Vernon Scannell
A collection exploring perspectives of old age - ‘A Thorgill Year’ by Wes Magee
Illustrated by Penny Berry - ‘Blind Man's Buff’ by Edward Lowbury
The first ever collection in the ‘New Garland’ series - ‘The Bone in Her Leg’ by John Mole
Illustrated by Rigby Graham - ‘Catching the Ebb Tide’ by Rosemary Lynne Grant
Illustrated by the poet herself - ‘February’ by Angela Livingstone
With Boris Pasternak's Russian. Illustration by Gordon Bradshaw - ‘Fifty O'Clock’ by Dennis O'Driscoll
Illustrated by Rigby Graham - ‘Girl, Dark Hued and Agile’ by Albert Rowe
With Pablo Neruda's Spanish. Illustrated by Eric Ward - ‘Grace Notes’ by Karen Gershon
Illustrated by Stella Tripp - ‘Hop Pickers' Holiday’ by Gerda Mayer
Illustrated by Clare Curtis - ‘November Forest’ by Anne Born
Swedish by Solveig Von Schoultz. Illustrated by Penny Berry - ‘Out There In Rows’ by John Cotton
Illustrated by Rigby Graham - ‘Shelley Plain’ by Robert Greacen
Literary Encounters - ‘Small Parcel of Bones’ by David Charleston
Illustrated by Penny Berry - ‘Starfall’ by Wes Magee
Illustrated by Penny Berry - ‘Stone and Other Poems’ by Fred Sedgwick
Illustrated by Peter Gauld - ‘White Magic’ by Anita Debska
Polish by Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski. Illustrated by Olga Sienko - The ‘Keepsake Poems’
The series by Roy Lewis's Keepsake Press
- ‘New Garland’ Series
- History of the Press
Find out more about our 40 year history - Links to Other Presses
Other letterpress printed goodies for sale in the UK - Contact Us
Use the quick contact form, send an email or write to us - FAQ
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