as and of
12pp 202 x 152 letterpress, photocopy, paperback; Coracle, London 1984, £4.50
with and within
8pp 202 x 152 letterpress, photocopy, paperback; Coracle, London 1984, £4.50
Plasticine work
An inventory of building and taking-apart
16pp 110 x 260 letterpress, paperback; Coracle, London 1985, £4.50
Black Bob
Printed alike throughout full-bleed black letterpress line-block.
124pp 174 x 115 letterpress, paper-covered casebinding; edition of 100 copies, Coracle, London 1989, £55.00
A Consideration of ‘Black Bob’
A Country Museum
The key events of Jonathan Hutchinson’s pioneering educational museum, from its beginnings in 1888 to
1906, detailing a strategic use of display and publication; arranged according to his ‘space-for-time’ method.
Extracted from E W Swanton’s history of the museum, Haslemere, Surrey 1947.
24pp 220 x 155 offset, pamphlet; (Little Critic Pamphlet 8) Coracle, London 1992, £3.00
Aggregate
Terms and abbreviations from the map of a suburban area measuring ten by ten kilometres: ‘TQ26,
Ordnance Survey 1:25000 second series’. Each kilometre square is superimposed; the accumulative
interference isolating each locational term from relationships within its own territory.
120pp 208 x 150 photocopy, cloth-covered casebinding, slipcase; London 1992/4, £100.00
Aggregate
Copy
A collection of grouped texts and images, with an annotated index; effecting a system of reading both
reflexive and asymmetric.
60pp 175 x 122 offset, pamphlet, plastic slip-over cover; Coracle, London 1992, £4.50
Wirelesslessness
An annotated examination of the structural and functional constraints of direction and meaning. The seven
texts: Momentum, Stack, Volume, Fraction, Continuum, Radio, Reverb; occupy a page-structure where the
autonomy of the single word or page, and the ephemeral nature of reading, demonstrate the ambivalence of
the temporary.
128pp 170 x 123 offset, paperback; Coracle, London 1992, £9.50
AKA
titlepublisher publishertitle alsopublisher knownaspublisher reversedindex index reversedindex index
alsoknownpublisher aspublisher titlepublisher publishertitle
12pp 200 x 140 photocopy, reversible sewn pamphlet; London 1993, £3.50
Extension
Nine terms from the supplementary index to The Land of Britain, its use and misuse, L Dudley Stamp,
London 1962; an addition to the thirty-six terms selected from the main index: ‘Fraction’, in
Wirelesslessness; above.
12pp 170 x 125 photocopy, sewn pamphlet; London 1993, £2.50
Half-title
A catalogue to accompany work shown at Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, summer 1993.
Included is a reprint of E W Swanton’s essay ‘Temporary Museums’.
24pp 170 x 120 photocopy, pamphlet; London 1993, £3.00
hijack
mutual: mono circuitpermanent
8pp 110 x 160 photocopy, sewn pamphlet; Duplicate Books, Ironbridge 1993, £2.50
noiselesson
butt corkorrubberor ddub dip dubb mat on orrubberorcork pad pick reverse ribbonwoundbobbin spools
springs toyota up
36pp 145 x 100 offset, pamphlet; workfortheeyetodo, London 1993, £3.50
noiselesson
parallel series
Word-for-word versions that juxtapose the original with its index, translation or reversal. The productional
basis of the series in the repetitive practice of the scribe: the historical converse of desktop publishing.
kurt schwitters’ opinion, 1946, 36pp; ernst jandl’s names, 1964, 16pp; simon cutts’ unwritten poem, 8pp;
german radio, 16pp; japanese radio, 16pp; eugen gomringer’s ireland, 1953, 28pp; ernst jandl’s perfektion,
1964, 40pp; raymond queneau’s reader, 1938, 24pp.
181 x 130 handwritten in ink, sewn pamphlets; London 1993, £4.50 each.
throuout
The sequential redeployment of the complete index to ‘Forgery detection’, London 1964.
28pp 280 x 200 photocopy, rubber stamp, sewn pamphlet; Form Books, London 1993, £4.00
x-ray
‘bill and iris…’, ‘bill is yellowish…’; simultaneously reference, source and index.
16pp 145 x 100 photocopy, reversible sewn pamphlet; London 1993, £4.00
commentary
Fifty-six titles selected from the bibliographical references in Born to sing, an interpretation and world
survey of bird song, Charles Hartshorne, Indiana 1973; the eighty year succession of publication, from 1891
to 1970, corresponding with the invisible continuum of birdsong throughout the pages.
80pp 194 x 135 typewriter, cloth-covered casebinding; London 1994, £55.00
commentary
Continuum
after György Ligeti’s score to his composition for harpsichord. Each page isolates two words, both of which,
although independent of each other, are tethered to their complete text and move in opposite directions of
reading. The cassette recording digitally superimposes a performance of the piece, with its reverse,
momentarily symmetrical at its centre.
103 leaves 151 x 217 typewriter, loose-leaf with screw-posts in cloth-covered case, C8 cassette; London 1994,
£110.00
Continuum
eachonebutonewithoutit
Ninety-four words from a paragraph in Gertrude Stein’s ‘After at once’ 1924; the corresponding accelerative
sequence the velocities and classifications of the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force.
100pp 220 x 156 typewriter, cloth-covered casebinding; London 1994, £85.00
Highlight
figureofeight
figureofeight.figur…efivebfiguresixest / imatingangleofslop…elaboratesettingout
A continual reading fixed between the illustrated endpapers, crossing-over at the connection of the sewn
sections.
28pp 194 x 133 typewriter, photocopy, cloth-covered casebinding; London 1994, £35.00
gog
There is usually three or four in a clutch, and often two or three clutches in the year. There is a variation in
the ground, from dirty white to buff. The markings vary a little more, consisting of black or pale pinkishbrown
lines or scribbles. Middle English: oscillating movement (unrecorded).
36pp 170 x 97 letterpress, sewn double pamphlet; London 1994, £10.00
gradual
smallstreamconsecutiveinvertable
108pp 135 x 86 letterpress, cloth-covered casebinding; London 1994, £20.00
kswhatab
Kurt Schwitters’ eleven-line stammering poem ‘What a b what a b what a beauty’ 1944, is planned as one
word or line break to a page; the parallel is both an alphabetic index of the five repeating words and an
indication of the order of the folded sections prior to binding.
100pp 220 x 156 typewriter, cloth-covered casebinding; London 1994, £85.00
kswhatab
libraryradio
60pp 168 x 114 typewriter, cloth-covered casebinding; London 1994, £18.00
readhear
60pp 168 x 114 typewriter, cloth-covered casebinding; London 1994, £18.00
an uncut pamphlet
for inclusion within the project The First Publication, Research Group for Artists Publications,
University of Derby.
16pp 160 x 112 letterpress, pamphlet; London 1995, £3.00
at once
after Gertrude Stein, ‘did it seem…’
32pp 108 x 153 letterpress, sewn pamphlet; London 1995, £4.50
Highlight
before later
after William Caxton, ‘after dyuerse werkes…’
32pp 108 x 153 letterpress, sewn pamphlet; London 1995, £4.50
locomotor
onetofourteenfourteentoonefifteentotwentyeight
twentyeighttofifteentwentyninetofortytwofortytwototwentynine
44pp 125 x 111 letterpress, hole-punched, folded board spine; Axminster 1995, £9.00
rollers
squeeze…epulley, pulleys…rollers;
typewriter platen, inking mechanism.
24pp 155 x 112 letterpress, double pamphlet; London 1995, £6.00
singinging
Abstracted subjects from the index to the central chapter of Nature in Downland, W H Hudson,
London 1900, titled ‘Silence and Music’, redeployed in ascending and descending sequences.
48pp 210 x 150 letterpress, double pamphlet; Axminster 1995, £12.00
some form
after Wooldridge and Hutchings, ‘succession is the…’
32pp 108 x 153 letterpress, sewn pamphlet; London 1995, £4.50
abrv
orgasworksupmanuscriptdownmanuscriptjournalmodel
16pp 80 x 112 offset, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 1996, £3.00
an echo
after Gertrude Stein, and after Ian Hamilton Finlay’s ‘Echoes Series’.
12pp 124 x 117 letterpress, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 1996, £3.00
halfdifferent halfidentical
Monthly calendar marking the divisions of the symmetrical year.
4pp in 8pp covers 145 x 110 letterpress, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 1996, £2.00
longoblong
concentric print radial extent
12pp 126 x 215 letterpress, pamphlet; Axminster 1996, £9.00
readyreckoner
used not made, reverse reading throughout
44pp variously cut 148 x 86 letterpress, cloth-covered casebinding; Axminster 1996, £24.00
rereader
selected reading and writing ninetyone to ninetysix
8pp 310 x 220 offset, pamphlet; Axminster 1996, £4.50
rereader
sonatina
continual—a book a
16pp 152 x 96 offset, pamphlet; Axminster 1996, £3.50
by playback tape
woodland recording
16pp 112 x 158 letterpress, pamphlet; Axminster 1997, £5.00
ocularo
air paper water
20pp 160 x 125 letterpress, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 1997, £4.00
Thither
‘it being … some book’
28pp 165 x 127 letterpress, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 1997, £6.00
vignette
E B Ford’s recollective text describing the Hedge Brown from his 1945 book Butterflies, in a constellatory
form of a two-dimensional print; its reading catalogued in the three-dimensional pages of the book.
440 x 315 offset in three colours, 56pp 187 x 127 letterpress, cloth-covered casebinding; edition of 50 copies,
Axminster 1997, £50.00
BBBN
engravedcircularscenescutintoemptyboxwoodbobbinsthatmayprintsomecontinuallandscape
8pp 106 x 90 letterpress, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 1998, £4.00
English Handwriting Models
No.1 Reading and Writing Country, 26pp. From An introduction to geographical landscape drawing
(lowland country), Geoffrey Hutchings, Juniper Hall Field Centre, Dorking 1955.
No.2 Monophonic Conversations about Landscape, 30pp. From Map and Photo Reading Answer Book,
T W Birch, London 1956.
No.3 One Radio Vignette, 26pp. and by cassette hand recorded transcribed
No.4 Anonymous Observer, 20pp. Date and location marginalia, tabulated from a copy of The Observer’s
Book of British Wild Flowers.
No.5 Rota, 38pp. I know you want us to hear something of the piece ‘rota versatilis’
No.6 Recto/Verso, 32pp. ‘The brand name, address and Code of Practice number of the producer should be
included on a small rectangular card inserted in the bunch.’ Watercress, production of the cultivated crop,
London 1983.
135 x 205 laser print, cloth and paper-covered flush-trimmed boards; Axminster 1998, £15.00 each.
Fngrprnt
after Thmsbwck
16pp 123 x 161 letterpress, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 1998, £4.00
Paragraph
abstracted from an unpublished essay written in 1991, titled ‘or the reader’s digest’.
16pp 175 x 125 letterpress, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 1998, £3.00
Specimens
“At the centre of every vignettist is a vorticist.” Typographical marriages or engagements between Bewick
and Wadsworth for example, and abbreviation as a form: whether in the rendered line on a map, the
hatched wooden block, or a diminution of the spelt word (often via a ‘de-vowelling’, or coppicing).
8pp 297 x 210 offset, pamphlet; Axminster 1998, £3.00
Made with respect and reference to the work and ideas of Conlon Nancarrow.
24pp 284 x 124 letterpress, wiro-binding; Axminster 1998, £12.00
BKMK
… there are so many things we take for granted about a book, things that help you find your way about,
indices, page numbers, that sort of thing …
60pp 263 x 187, bookmark 263 x 91 offset, letterpress, paper-covered casebinding; Axminster 1999, £24.00
Distance etc.
Longereadingandwriting ninetyfourtoninetynine
Preface, Hereabouts, Aggregate, Exchange, Undulator, Segue, Rota, Commentary, Rereader, Monophonic,
Dtchnglsh, Wtrcrssbds, BBBN, BKMK, Ocularo, Blackboard, Geographyskulptur, Clicktrack, Elastical,
Onwrongoing, Titletrack, Invsblndscpe.
32pp text, 8pp plates 215 x 155 offset, paper-covered casebinding / paperback; Axminster 1999,
£12.00 / £9.00
ellipsis
thetitleofthisbookis ellipsis
thewordontheleftis englinglish
thewordontherightis englisglish
48pp 150 x 95 letterpress, paper-covered casebinding; Axminster 1999, £9.00
hearead
‘spoken…’ ‘spelled…’ ‘misspoken…’ ‘misspelled…’
28pp 105 x 150 letterpress, sewn pamphlet; Gefn Press, London 1999, £6.00
hut
Nuthatch, nesthole (anon.)
8pp 80 x 120 letterpress, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 1999, £4.00
essayes
These ‘essayes’ were begun with the intention of editing and grouping new and separate pieces of reading
and writing by their extents. Written contrary to the progressive order in which they have been published,
and ordinarily be read, the aim of the method or ‘argument’ was to specify nothing by way of subject matter,
other than what might happen during and within the period of work.
28pp 152 x 105 offset, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2001, £6.00
essayes
Cycle
Figures showing the velocity of gliding and the momentum of landscape.
8pp 105 x 150 offset, pamphlet; Axminster 2002, £2.00
Cycle
DDOUBL
thecastconcretebridge…
thecastconcretetunnel…
20pp 134 x 94 offset, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2002, £3.00
speakers
…eighty pages unbacked alternating spreads…printed black letterpress and one colour…containing nothing
but the sound of its own making…
80pp 123 x 93 letterpress, paper-covered casebinding; Axminster 2002, £9.00
THEENGLSHALPHABET
anatoz beechnuts canada etc.
30pp 150 x 110 offset, cloth and paper-covered flush-trimmed boards; Axminster 2002, £6.00
domestics
en em, hyphenate; concrete, maquette; paperpulp, microwave; jamjar, label; site, huts; translate, vignette
16pp 158 x 124 letterpress, sewn pamphlet;
Axminster 2003, £6.00
English Handwriting Models
No.7 FULLUP, 12pp. Thomas Fuller, described by George Pulman in The Book of the Axe, 1875.
No.8 WRONG SIDE, 10pp. the weaving is done on the wrong side of the stuff…
No.9 DRAIN, 12pp. rain…
149 x 105, laser print, glued board-backed binding; Axminster 2003, £5.00 each
AKA reprint
titlepublisher publishertitle alsopublisher knownaspublisher reversedindex index reversedindex index
alsoknownpublisher aspublisher titlepublisher publishertitle
12pp 200 x 140 inkjet, reversible sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2004, £5.00
Englshpublshing: Writing and readings 1991–2002
This book came from the notion of remaking, in the same order, everything that I had written and published
during the 1990s, beginning from the model for a hypothetical journal. As this idea crystallised—of going back
a set distance and then proceeding towards the present—the retrospective view of the work seemed new, that
the familiar, the already done, had now become completely different. Along with unpublished work, much of the
material had been made available in a distinct variety of separate formats. The project of reformatting became
one of unifying and integrating inside a standardised layout. Within the sequence, the links and relationships
between one part and another became significant, a page-by-page process of both arrangement and manipulation;
and apart from the occasional minor revision little has been added by way of annotation or commentary beyond
what was already written at the time...
96pp 216 x 145 offset, paperback; Coracle, Tipperary / Sixtus, Limoges / Spacex, Exeter 2004, £8.95
Distributed by Cornerhouse: www.cornerhouse.org
way
up direction or down direction—an enlarged detail of a hypothetical stretch of railway line from a fold-out
illustration “Conventional Signs for Field Sketching” published in A Manual of Map Reading and Field
Sketching, London 1928.
60pp 180 x 100 inkjet, paper-covered casebinding; Axminster 2004, £15.00
Bunch
These thirty watercress labels accumulated gradually over a period of around twenty-five years… the examples
of layout, text and geography have grown with the gathering; the comparison of like with like.
52pp 90 x 130 inkjet, cloth-covered casebinding; edition of 100 copies, Axminster 2005, £18.00
Bunched
et al
edward etc.
12pp 190 x 150 inkjet, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2005, £6.00
et al
inter ruptr
rebroadcast rerecord republish
20pp 200 x 154 inkjet, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2005, £7.50
linage
Thomas Fuller, described by George Pulman in The Book of the Axe, 1875 / Text (and printed linen by
Enid Marx) from Things Made with Threads, 1959
12pp 200 x 145 inkjet, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2005, £5.00
Susx
an abbreviation / privately printed
16pp 204 x 140 inkjet, invertible sewn pamphlet; edition of 100 copies, Axminster 2005, £6.00
wdnrm
“The vignette, by its general appearance, presents itself both as a global metaphor for the world and as a
fragment. Dense at its center, tenuous on the periphery, it seems to disappear into the page: this makes it
a naïve but powerful metaphor of the infinite, a symbol of the universe; at the same time, the vignette is
fragmentary… incomplete, mostly dependent upon the text for its meaning…”
Charles Rosen & Henri Zerner, Romanticism and Realism, the mythology of nineteenth century art,
London 1984.
56pp 310 x 220 offset, cloth-covered casebinding, letterpressed spine colophon; edition of 10 copies,
Axminster 2005, £100.00
DOUBLE–CHECK
A to B | A to B
2pp, 99 x 93, inkjet, in clear bag with title card; Axminster 2006, £3.00
nineteenineteenetc...
a dual version of this text from 2001 printed in black | blue and blue | black.
64pp, 193 x 132, inkjet, cloth-covered casebinding; edition of 10 copies, Axminster 2006, £24.00
nineteenineteenetc...
onsixpagestoday
amounting to a partial recognition of the almost-informed, the semi-opinionated, and the currently
part-time, as speed-bellowed by the signed-off livestock auctioneer.
16pp, 194 x 142, offset, pamphlet; Axminster 2006, £3.00
onsixpagestoday
someeconomics
max bill li yuan-chi
24pp, 175 x 135, inkjet, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2006, £6.00
someeconomics
The True Line: The Landscape Diagrams of Geoffrey Hutchings
40pp, 210 x 140, offset, sewn paperback; Axminster 2006, £9.00
The True Line
TRANS LATER
HENRY/HERBERT/HANS
12pp, 190 x 123, inkjet, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2006, £4.00
typd
typd wrd / wdn type / prnt ing / prn td
16pp, 200 x 100, inkjet, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2006, £4.00
Above
Thirty-five printed and bound pages, oblique aerial photographs and texts from Landscape from the air,
F J Monkhouse, Cambridge 1959.
76pp 140 x 105 inkjet, cloth and paper-covered flush-trimmed boards; Axminster 2007, £15.00
biblio
guide book to writers on natural history
28pp, 185 x 130, inkjet, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2007, £6.00
Ringinging
The telephone number of the tower... / A limited number of this leaflet...
8pp, 190 x 130, inkjet, pamphlet; Axminster 2007, £3.00
Ringinging
Black Bob
Printed alike throughout full-bleed black letterpress line-block.
124pp 174 x 115 letterpress, paper-covered casebinding; second edition, Coracle, Ireland 2008, £55.00
A Consideration of Black Bob
River Axe Crossings: A visual survey along the course of the river
From the front of the book the right-hand page sequence shows the direction from mouth to source,
while from the back the left-hand sequence is downstream with the river’s flow. The crossings are
numbered from source to mouth, and while the distances between vary, no account is made from one
to the next other than the immediate stage of the river beyond and the particular landscape pictured.
96pp, 147 x 218, offset; Axminster 2008, signed paper-covered casebinding £32.00, paperback £7.95
River Axe Crossings
about
The original illustration and text are from the ‘Notes to the Plates’ in J. A. Steers’ visual survey: The Coast of
England and Wales in Pictures, Cambridge 1960.
16pp, 220 x 220, digital, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2009, £6.00
English Coloured Papers
Poems by Simon Cutts / Papers by Colin Sackett
28pp, 150 x 105, digital, letterpress, cloth and paper-covered flush-trimmed boards; edition of 300 copies,
Axminster 2009, £12.00
40 | 46
Geeooggrraapphhy
“Landscape is made of names and numbers as much as shapes and lines.”–Anon., n.d.
24pp, 280 x 200, digital, sewn paperback; Axminster 2009, £12.00
Geeooggrraapphhy
lightbox | keyboard
Two photographs of print production operators (from The Monotype Recorder, ‘Filmsetting in Focus’, 1965),
paired as endpapers, and in variants of a hundred disconnected parts, each rotating progressively through
quarter-turns in anti-clockwise and clockwise sequences.
8pp, 232 x 232, digital, letterpress, cloth and paper-covered flush-trimmed boards; Axminster 2009, £24.00
keyboard | lightbox
Spate
Flooded Landscape near Exeter
16pp, 200 x 130, digital, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2009, £6.00
ule | owl
thostodanoldstok therestoodanoldstump
8pp, 200 x 140, digital, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2009, £4.00
escarpment
printedline drawingofa reliefmodel ofasection
ofasection reliefmodel drawingofa printedline
12pp, 280 x 200, digital, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2010, £8.00
once...
once one only
12pp, 185 x 130, inkjet, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2010, £4.00
Network
Lines of intervisibility, from R. R. Sellman Illustrations of Devon History (1962)
16pp, 270 x 210, digital, sewn pamphlet, glassine wrapper; Axminster 2011, £12.00
Observer’s Marginalia
A sequence of photographs of the marginalia added to a copy of The Observer’s Book of British Wild Flowers
published in 1937. Two hundred species of plants are shown and described, one per page, of which eighty-two
have been recorded on one hundred and fourteen occasions. The entries are made in black, blue, and green
ink, and pencil. Fully indexed, with an introductory essay, ‘The Observer’, by John Bevis.
64pp, 140 x 88, offset, sewn paperback; Axminster 2011, £8.00
Anonymous Observer
Calendar
Stonehenge, Wiltshire, Ministry of Works Official Guide-book (1959)
32pp, 200 x 140, digital, sewn paperback; Axminster 2012, £10.00
Doppler
A. Larkin (Concrete) Ltd
32pp, 140 x 190, digital, sewn paperback; Axminster 2012, £10.00
‘ticket’
ticker/ticket
16pp, 185 x 130, inkjet, digital, sewn pamphlet; Axminster 2012, £6.00
as
aswordswerewritten aswordswereread
20pp, 185 x 130, digital, pamphlet; Axminster 2013, £6.00
reset
reset esetr setre etres trese
12pp, 280 x 200, digital, pamphlet; Axminster 2016, £10.00