A group of twenty-four hand-made letterpress publications from Blue Print Press.

RAEDTS, Janine. [Publisher].
A group of twenty-four hand-made letterpress publications from Blue Print Press. First editions. 24 hand-made books. Vittorio Veneto: Blue Print Press, 2014-2023. Fine copies. 

A striking group of publications from Blue Print Press, the private letterpress studio of Janine Raedts founded in Vittorio Veneto, Italy in 2013. The focus of the publisher is on hand-made, one-poem books printed in very small editions. Here each edition gives space to a carefully chosen poem from a range of classic, contemporary and vernacular verse forms. In this group works by Emily Dickinson, Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin, Andrew Marvell and William Carlos Williams keep company with a typographic setting of the shipping forecast and the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues. Illustrations by the publisher take a primary role alongside the text with techniques such as linocut, engraving, etching, aquatint, watercolour and photography. A beautiful collection showcasing the innovation of this private press and including editions as small as six copies only. 

1. HEANEY, Seamus. A Kite for Aibhin. Blue printed wrappers [300 x 200mm]. Initialled illustration by Janine Raedts. Number 8 of 10 numbered copies. [2014]. 

2. HERRICK, Robert. Delight in Disorder. Grey printed wrappers [260 x 180mm]. Aquatint by the publisher. Number 4 of 10 numbered copies and signed by Janine Raedts. 2014. 

3. LARKIN, Philip. Days. White printed wrappers [260 x 180mm]. With an initialled etching by the publisher. Number 7 of 10 copies. 2014. 

4. MARVELL, Andrew. Thoughts in a Garden. Red printed wrappers [240 x 170mm]. With a linocut by the publisher. Number 5 of 10 copies. Signed by the publisher. 2014. 

5. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. This is Just to Say. Dark blue printed wrappers [240 x 170mm]. With a linocut by Annalisa Cescon and the publisher. Initialled by the publisher as number 8 of 10 copies. 2014. 

6. WALCOTT, Derek. Love After Love. Red printed wrappers [190 x 175mm] with a loose folded sheet within. Two-colour linocut by the publisher. Parallel texts with an Italian translation by Matteo Campagnoli. Numbered 5 of 10 copies. 2015. 

7. DICKINSON, Emily. I Watched the Moon around the House. Brown wrappers [200 x 150mm]. One of 6 copies only. 2016. 

8. KRAVOS, Marko. Out of Myself. Illustrated wrappers [195 x 134mm]. Wood engraving to the wrappers by Ulla Aatinen. One of 30 copies signed by the artist. 2016. 

9. SALMI, Niklas. Shirshasana. White illustrated wrappers [195 x 139mm]. With etching, aquatint and ink dripping by Sergio Bigolin. One of 30 copies signed by the artist. 2016. 

10. ANON. Sing a Song of Sixpence. Illustrated wrappers [200 x 148mm]. With a parallel translation into Italian by the publisher. Linocut artwork by Sofia Renganeschi. Number 7 of 7 copies signed by the artist. 2017.

11. YEATS, W.B. When You Are Old. Illustrated wrappers [195 x 139mm] with a woodcut by Elide Piras. Number 7 of 30 copies signed by the artist and the printer. 2017. 

12. DYLAN, Bob. Subterranean Homesick Blues. White wrappers [550 x 400mm] illustrated with three etchings and a linocut by the publisher. Number 12 of 20 numbered copies signed by the printer and artist, Janine Raedts. 2018. 

13. The Shipping Forecast. Brown printed wrappers [170 x 110mm]. Leporello folded sheet with original watercolour by Arcadio Lobato. Number 2 of 20 numbered copies signed by the artist. 2018. 

14. JAMIE, Kathleen. Glamourie. Illustrated wrappers [310 x 250mm]. With a soft-ground etching. One of 30 copies signed by the publisher. 2019. 

15. CLANCHY, Kate. The Bridge over the Border. White wrappers [350 x 275mm]. With a black and white archival inkjet photograph on the frontispiece by Janine Raedts. Number 4 of 20 copies signed by the publisher. 2020. 

16. FEAVER, Vicki. Coat. Brown wrappers [275 x 205mm] with dry embossed paper sleeve. One of 20 copies signed by the cover printer Elide Piras. 2020. 

17. GUILLEVIC, Eugène. On peut rêver. Brown printed boards [165 x 130mm] with black cloth spine. With a small illustration reproduced from a 1950s school book. One of 6 numbered copies. 2020. 

18. ROBINSON, Roger. A Portable Paradise. Brown wrappers [275 x 200mm]. Back to back texts in English and Italian with photographs by the publisher. One of 30 numbered copies initialled by the publisher. 2020. 

19. DHARKER, Imtiaz. Tissue. White printed wrappers [200 x 300mm]. One of 10 copies. 2021. 

20. CHINGONYI, Kayo. Interior with Ceiling Fan. White printed wrappers [210 x 125mm] with leporello sheet within. One of 10 copies. 2022. 

21. DAL FALCO, Nicola. Inventori di Lettere. Stiff white wrappers [270 x 190mm] with blue and silver titles. One of 25 copies signed by the author. 2022. 

22. HIRSCH, Edward. The Widening Sky. White printed wrappers [170 x 100mm]. With a watercolour by Arcadio Lobato. Numbered 12 of 18 copies. 2022. 

23. BEEDHAM, Veronica. Between Wind and Clouds. Stiff white wrappers [260 x 185mm] with a printed wraparound band. With five photographs by Renzo Bertasi. Number 28 of 30 copies signed by the poet and photographer. [2023]. 

24. LOCHEAD, Liz. Poets Need Not. Illustrated stiff white wrappers [390 x 295mm] with hand finished etching and aquatint by Noreen Bissland. Numbered 10 of 30 copies signed by the poet and artist. 2023.