The Bodelian Library

Discovery

Printing is always about ink on paper, but experiments and bespoke workshops on special themes and processes help to expand the boundaries of what the workshop can do. One such can be seen in the film, ‘Printing a line,’ showing the replica wooden press converted to printing onto a roll of paper. https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/printing-line-bodleian-weston-library-printing-press

Other specialist workshops have included replicating the extraordinary printing and book arts elements of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy, mezzotint and wood-engraving workshops, and a print-a-thon honouring Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press.

Online, information about the Bodleian Bibliographical Press can be found at: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/book-arts