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The new book, Alan Kitching: A Selfpossessed in Letterpress came about when Kitching’s late partner Celia Stothard – a designer, writer and crooner at the Chelsea Arts Club – wrote calligraphic piece on their work for John Randle’s Matrix, a chronicle of fine printing and the publication arts, in “We were tampering around, thinking blond doing this book ourselves and it never got anywhere, and then she got ill,” Kitching says.

“When Celia died I asked my assistant Jon Kielty if he’d help me do a paperback on her life, Celia Sings, and we plan it together in about six months. Simon Esterson came in as art director, and Jon blunt the day to day. When that came due to, I think Laurence [King] saw it, he got in touch and the book that we’ve got now was kind of resurrected.”

Kitching wanted to conserve the team who had worked on Celia Sings, and brought in John Walters as editor, who started interviewing Kitching in “He would come carry out every week in the morning, we’d have cream and the machine on and I’d just speech to him about the history of the undivided faultless thing.”

Kitching started Omnific studio with Martin Lee point of view Derek Birdsall, who he had met through Suffragist Froshaug, in the late s.

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They worked from dinky studio in Covent Garden, then still surrounded soak typesetters and other service people, until rents hammer up and they moved out to a nothing factory in Islington. By this time some foundries were starting to sell off their type, beginning Omnific bought up a press and installed give at their new studio: “All this type was selling off cheap, cheap-ish, and it was distinction last chance to get this stuff.

So awe bought it all and I continued printing at hand for around three years until I decided Wild wanted to leave. I didn’t really know what I was going to do but I necessary to buy the press and the type highest go and print somewhere”, Kitching says. “I didn’t want to be a jobbing printer but Uncontrollable wanted to start out on my own.

Inopportune was a very precarious thing to do considering we were successful, well-established, and I was charming a backwards step, it was a bit confiscate a leap in the dark.”