The Compton Press

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The Compton Press was, like much of the 1960s, a happening. It began, not with a grand design, but with a passion for letterpress printing. This passion was very infectious, and people were drawn to the mix of compositors, machine-minders, proof readers, editors, and typographers initially based in a converted cowshed and coach house in Compton Chamberlayne, Wiltshire. We stubbornly clung onto our liking for letterpress, and this led to our eventual demise, but for the 12 years that we lasted we printed over 500 editions of books, published over 100, and produced many journals, and uncountable items of jobbing printing.

Julian Berry writes: Sophia is the first of a trilogy, of which the second volume is now written, and being edited. In writing the book I have been able to draw on my early experiences as an archaeologist working on a bronze age tell in the Jordanian desert; the contrast between the bronze age and today being so extreme. The journal I kept at the time was published by the Archaeo Press under the title 'Shifting Sand' in 2017. In parallel to writing, I run a marketing technology company based in London.