Andrew Lanyon, writer, painter, photographer & film-maker
Books – Andrew Lanyon
Andrew has been writing books for over 50 years and has published more than 170 titles. His main works are the Rowley series, initially intended as a trilogy, there are now twenty four titles. You can read the latest in the series ‘A Perfect Darkness’ by downloading it as a pdf here.
The marriage of the cerebral and the practical in the composition and production of these books is a rare thing today. Chris Ridgway
I keep the books nearby when I am reading. They are remarkable for both thought and beauty. I have rarely seen anything with such depth and so many layers of meaning. Doris Johnson, Professor Emeritus
Title
Date
Edition size
Publisher
Description
Deadpan. A three hundred and sixty degree revolution
1987
356
AL
121pp. Letterpress hardback. White dustjacket in a slip-case. Illustrations on every page, many in colour and tipped-in, most of them reproductions of the author’s own works. Square 8vo. Contains an erratum slip. Some dustjackets do not have an image printed on the back. All printed on spine.
Second Nature: further reflections on art
1989
250
AL
148pp. Letterpress, casebound, thread-sewn, in a slip-case with tipped-in colour plates and b/w illustrations. 8vo.
The Loose Connection: a build up of static in art
1992
253
AL
124pp. Letterpress, casebound, thread-sewn, in a slip-case with tipped-in colour plates. Small quarto. Illustrations on every page. Part of the Deadpan Trilogy.
The Theatrical Constructions and Cinematic Satires of Mervyn Rowley
1994
250
AL
12pp. Small format paperback, hand-stitched into letterpress cover. All are numbered 673. Poor quality presentation with glued-in text.
The Unjustified Text
1995
250
AL
90pp. Letterpress, casebound, thread-sewn, in a slip-case with tipped-in colour plates. Small quarto. Illustrations on every page.
The Quick-Change Act
1997
250
AL
90pp. Letterpress, casebound, thread-sewn, in a slip-case with tipped-in colour plates. Part of the Deadpan Trilogy.
Room to Manoeuvre
1998
200
AL
92pp. Letterpress, casebound, thread-sewn, in a slip-case with tipped-in colour plates. Quarto. Illustrations on every page.
Dying for Eternity
1999
200
AL
176pp. Letterpress, casebound, thread-sewn, in a slip-case with tipped-in colour plates. Oblong. Includes a section at the rear with contributions by subscribers.
The Shadow Shop
2001
200
AL
20pp. Letterpress. Paperback. Folded and stitched in a single section. Tipped-in colour plates. Accompanied ‘Shop of Shadows’, a constructed exhibition at Falmouth Art Gallery
A Persistence of Visions
2002
150
AL
74pp. Letterpress, casebound, thread-sewn, in a slip-case with tipped-in colour plates. Oblong.
A Carbon Copy
2003
150
AL
32pp. Letterpress. Soft cover, sewn in a single section. Tipped-in colour plates. This is not The Carbon Copy that forms one of the three stories in Two Across Two Down.
The Tower of Silence
2004
150
AL
64pp. Letterpress, casebound, thread-sewn, in a slip-case with tipped-in colour plates. Oblong.
A Novel Solution
2004
150
AL
56pp. Letterpress, casebound, white dustjacket, thread-sewn, in a slip-case with tipped-in colour plates. Oblong.
Circular Walks around Rowley Hall
2006
99; 1,000
Atlas Press
P/b in card slip-case. A limited edition of 99 signed and numbered copies; an edition of 1000, edited by Alastair Brotchie as a selection from the first 12 Rowley books: Deadpan (1987); Second Nature (1989); The Loose Connection (1992): The Theatrical Constructions and Cinematic Satires of Mervyn Rowley (1994); The Unjustified Text (1995); The Quick Change Act (1997); Room to Manoeuvre (1998); The Shadow Shop (2001); Dying for Eternity (1999); A Persistence of Visions (2002); The Tower of Silence (2004); A Novel Solution (2004). Won the Cornish Gorsedh Adult Fiction Award. ISBN: 1-900565-35-8
The Palette and the Retort
2008
150
AL
72pp. Letterpress, casebound, white dustjacket, thread-sewn, in a slip-case with tipped-in colour plates. Oblong.
Vera’s Disappearance
2010
100
AL
48pp. Letterpress, casebound, white dustjacket, thread-sewn, in a slip-case with tipped-in colour plates. Oblong.
A Storm at Rowley Hall
2017
200
AL
Unpaginated. P/b. Not letterpress. Illustrated. Oblong.
To Dye Eternity. How Rowley Hall was Lost and Regained
2009 2018
6 100
AL
Not letterpress. 1st edition of six photocopies in 2009. Rewritten and published as an edition of 100 in 2018. P/b. With illustrations.
The Only Non-slip Dodo Mat in the World
2013
50 (h/b)
Falmouth Art Gallery
132pp. H/back (1st edition). Not letterpress. First edition of 50 signed and numbered by AL with a tipped-in (oil) signature. Printed by Booth Print. 132pp. P/b (2nd edition: edition size not known) to accompany a large constructed exhibition at Falmouth Art Gallery. Colour illustrations. Printed by Booth Print.
Bifurcated Thought. Reflections on Inventive Thinking
2013
150
AL
60pp. P/b. Not letterpress. Second book to accompany the Dodo exhibition at Falmouth Art Gallery in 2013. As well as being a Rowley book, this also happens to be the fourth book about inventiveness, the first being Von Ribbentrop in St. Ives; the second, The Daughters of Radon; the third, The Only Non-Slip Dodo Mat in the World. About half of Bifurcated Thought was reproduced as Chapter 1 of Architectural Space (details below) in 2020.
In Search of Rowley Hall
2015
200
AL
Unpaginated. P/b. Not letterpress. A5.
The Rowley Claimant
2016
135
AL
60pp. Letterpress, casebound, white dustjacket, thread-sewn, in a slip-case with tipped-in colour plates. Oblong.
In Stitches in the Kitchen at Rowley Hall
2020
150
AL
Printed by Booth Print but held together by a thread, tied by the author.
Architectural Space and the Imagination – Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary
2020
Jane Griffiths & Adam Hanna (eds.)
Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter 1 reproduces about half of Bifurcated Thought, with an introductory commentary on it by the editors and brief reference to the earlier three books about access to inventiveness.
Upside Down at Rowley Hall
2021
100
AL
32pp. P/b. Illustrated. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
Vera Rowley’s A Perfect Darkness
2021
75
AL
P/back, 20pp landscape, folded & held by a thread. Printed by Booth Print. Also available as an e-book. Download free pdf.
Compartments in the Heart of Rowley Hall
2021
100
AL
62pp. P/back landscape, thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
On Writing with a Rook at Rowley Hall
2021
100
AL
46pp. P/b. Illustrated. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
Who’s Who at Rowley Hall
2022
100
AL
63pp. P/b. Illustrated. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
Above and Below at Rowley Hall
2022
100
AL
53pp. P/b. Illustrated. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
Vera Rowley’s Theories
2022
100
AL
65pp. P/b. Illustrated. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
The Circus Comes to Rowley Hall
2022
75
AL
40pp. P/b. Illustrated. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
On Finding Oneself at Rowley Hall
2022
75
AL
34pp. P/b. Illustrated. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
Nothing is as it seems at Rowley Hall
2022
75
AL
32pp. P/b. Illustrated. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
Pinpoint of the Yard Investigates the Cultural Crime of the Century in Saint Ives
2022
75
AL
32pp. P/b. Illustrated. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print. Signed and numbered.
The Fourth Wall at Rowley Hall
2022
75
AL
30pp. P/b. Illustrated. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Dedication ‘For Bill and Keri’. Printed by Booth Print.
What’s What at Rowley Hall
2023
75
AL
37pp. P/b. Illustrated. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print. Signed and numbered.
In the Heart of the Head at Rowley Hall
2023
75
AL
29pp. P/b. Illustrated. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
The Mist on the Moor behind the Hall
2023
75
AL
36pp. P/b. Illustrated. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
Rowley Books Featured in Other Publications
Title
Date
Editors
Publisher
Description
Architectural Space and the Imagination – Houses in Literature and Art from Classical to Contemporary
2020
Jane Griffiths & Adam Hanna
Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter 1 reproduces about half of Bifurcated Thought, with an introductory commentary on it by the editors and brief reference to the earlier three books about access to inventiveness.
Books on Peter Lanyon
Title
Date
Edition size
Publisher
Description
Peter Lanyon – 1918–1964
1990
500
AL
340pp. H/b with white dustjacket in green slip-case. Letterpress. Hand-bound. Many tipped-in colour plates.
Portreath: the Paintings of Peter Lanyon
1993
250
AL
70pp. H/b with white dustjacket in slip-case. Letterpress. Hand-bound. Many tipped-in colour plates.
Peter Lanyon: Works and Words
1995
400
AL
32pp. Letterpress. Tipped-in colour plates. Thin card cover. Stapled in one section.
Wartime Abstracts: the Paintings of Peter Lanyon
1996
250
AL
88pp. H/b with white dustjacket in slip-case. Letterpress. Hand-bound. Many tipped-in colour plates.
Peter Lanyon: Pottery and Postcards
1997
250
AL
56pp. Unpaginated. H/b with white dustjacket in black slip-case. Letterpress. Hand-bound. Many tipped-in colour plates.
Saint Ives: the Paintings of Peter Lanyon
2001
200
AL
176pp. Unpaginated. H/b with white dustjacket in black slip-case. Letterpress. Hand-bound. Small rectangular format, 51/2” x 73/4“. Tipped-in and mounted plates throughout, in colour and b/w.
Peter Lanyon. The Cuttings
2006
150
AL
c. 120pp. H/back with white dustjacket in black slip-case. Includes many tipped-in colour plates of family photographs, Peter Lanyon’s paintings and other cuttings, as well as reproductions of notes made by Peter Lanyon.
Peter Lanyon’s Construction for St. Just
2021
50/100
AL
58pp. H/back with white dust jacket in grey slip-case. Hand-sewn. 6 1/2 ” x 9”. Colour throughout. Signed and numbered edition of 50, with an original etching by Simon Marsh of Peter Lanyon’s 4” x 5” scratched glass boat. Also in p/back 56pp edition of 100 (unsigned, without etching).
Sheila Lanyon 1918–2015
2021
30
AL
64pp. H/back. AL’s biography of his mother. Landscape.
With Sam & Rosa
Title
Date
Edition size
Publisher
Description
Another ABC
1989
300
AL
80pp. H/b. Letterpress. Tipped-in colour plates. White dustjacket in pale blue slip-case. With pictures by Sam Lanyon and a foreword by Rosa Levin. Signed by Sam and Rosa.
Rosa’s Riding Tips for Would-be Riders
1992
245
AL
28pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. By Rosa Levin. Illustrated with drawings and tipped-in colour plates. Card covers with integral flaps. Signed in pencil by Rosa. Octavo. Litho.
Sam’s Encyclopedia Incorporating Hunting, Shooting, Fishing and Sewing for the Under Twelves
1993
255
AL
120pp. H/b. By Sam Lanyon. Letterpress. White dustjacket, contained in a slip-case. Thread-sewn and casebound. Tipped-in colour plates. The hand-written number to the bottom of the colophon page is by AL; the signature to the bottom is of his son, Sam.
Let’s Play Doctors with Sam and Rosa
2001
200
AL
32pp. Small format paperback hand-stitched into card covers. Tipped-in colour plates.
Let’s Play Talking with Sam and Rosa
2002
150
AL
32pp. Small format paperback hand-stitched into card covers. Tipped-in colour plates.
Let’s Play Animal Training with Sam and Rosa
2003
150
AL
32pp. (Unpaginated) Small format paperback hand-stitched. Letterpress. Tipped-in colour plates.
Let’s Play How and Why
2008
150
AL
36pp. (Unpaginated) Small format paperback hand-stitched. Letterpress. Tipped-in colour plates.
The Fairy Books
Title
Date
Edition size
Publisher
Description
A Fairy Find, including A Cache of Wands
2005
c.25
AL
76pp (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. Letterpress. Card cover. A Cache of Wands forms Part One of A Fairy Find (2006).
The Dream Midwives
2005
c.25
AL
60pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded and stapled. Letterpress. Card cover. With illustrations. Forms Part Two of A Fairy Find (2006).
The Fairy Wars
2005
10
AL
72pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. Letterpress. Card cover. Forms Part Three of A Fairy Find (2006).
A Fairy View
2005
25 + 25
AL
68pp. (Unpaginated) Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations. Letterpress. Card cover. Two separate editions of 25.
A Fairy Find
2006
unknown
Portobello Books
208pp. Clothbound in dark blue and silver. Full colour hardback. Some copies signed. First published in three volumes in limited editions in 2005. See above.
The Fairy Cake
2006
c.25
AL
20pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Fairy Lifts
2007
c.25
AL
64pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
A Fairy on Time
2007
c.25
AL
20pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Fairy Interiors
2008
c.25
AL
64pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Fairy Myths
2008
c.25
AL
64pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
A Fairy Exchange
2008
c.25
AL
64pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Fairy Factories
2008
c.25
AL
28pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
To Find the Fairy Queen
2008
3
AL
120pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Fortescue’s Cupboard
2018
c.30
AL
8pp. P/b. Not letterpress. Card cover folded with one stitch. With illustrations. A6. Printed by Booth Print.
Fairies versus Nurses and Flowers and Farmers
2018
100
AL
108pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Not letterpress. With illustrations. Thread sewn and casebound. Printed by Booth Print.
To Find the Fairy Queen
2020
150
AL
224pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Not letterpress. A6. With illustrations. Thread sewn and casebound. Printed by Booth Print.
How to Tell Fake Fairy Cakes
c.25
AL
20pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Fairies versus Farmers
c.25
AL
32pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch, with card cover. With illustrations.
Fake Fairy Comets
c.25
AL
28pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
More on Fairy TV
2023
100
AL
48pp. P/b. With illustrations. Thread sewn and casebound. Small format 148 x 105mm. Printed by Booth Print.
The Teddy Stories
Title
Date
Edition size
Publisher
Description
Teddy the Art Critic
c.25
AL
12pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy’s Book of Nkots
c.25
AL
12pp (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy’s Car Boot Scam
c.25
AL
12pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy Comes Out of Retirement
c.25
AL
36pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations. The first Teddy book.
Teddy’s the Derby Winner
c.25
AL
12pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy’s Desert Campaign
c.25
AL
16pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy the Detective
c.25
AL
12pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy’s Dorking Experiment
c.25
AL
16pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy and the Flaming Row
c.25
AL
12pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy and the Hospital Bed
c.25
AL
16pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy’s Inventory
c.25
AL
12pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy Looks Back
c.25
AL
28pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations. The third Teddy book
Teddy Makes a Mint
c.25
AL
28pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations. The second Teddy book
A Me Moir by Teddy or Me, Me, Me (ghosted by AL)
c.25
AL
8pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy and the National Trust
c.25
AL
16pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy, Newton and Einstein
c.25
AL
8pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy on the Backs of Old Envelopes
c.25
AL
16pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy’s Origami and Pop-Up Compendium
c.25
AL
4pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations. With thanks to Paul Spooner for all his help with the paper engineering.
Teddy and the RAF
2009
c.25
AL
24pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy’s Railway
c.25
AL
20pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy Reflects
c.25
AL
8pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy and the Royal Visit
c.25
AL
12pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy’s Space Probe
c.25
AL
12pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy Stops to Think
2009
c.25
AL
32pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy and the Tooth Fairy
2009
c.25
AL
28pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy’s and Tiddles’ Enterprise
c.25
AL
12pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy on Time
c.25
AL
16pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy to the Rescue
c.25
AL
16pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy’s Trauma
c.25
AL
12pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy the Unique
c.25
AL
16pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy and the Winch
c.25
AL
12pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy’s Woolly Thinking
c.25
AL
20pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Teddy and Agar-Agar – a Thriller about Jelly Set in Cornwall
2010
c.25
AL
20pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Juggling Honey
2019
100
AL
108pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Not letterpress. Thread sewn and casebound. Printed by Booth Print. An omnibus edition of AL’s Teddy stories. The title comes from the story entitled ‘Teddy’s Offshore Account’. Illustrated with photographs.
Tinkerbill
Title
Date
Edition size
Publisher
Description
The Biographical Vignettes of Tinkerbill of the Yard
2007
c. 25
AL
24pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
The Case of the Unsolved Crime featuring Tinkerbill of the Yard
2007
c.25
AL
32pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
The Criminal Mind of Tinkerbill of the Yard
2007
c.25
AL
24pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Tinkerbill and the Material Witness
2009
c.25
AL
20pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox A5 folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Tinkerbill of the Yard’s Unsolved Crime
2019
100
AL
64pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Not letterpress. A6. Thread sewn and casebound. With illustrations. Printed by Booth Print.
Flowers
Title
Date
Edition size
Publisher
Description
A Bunch of Flowers
2007
c.25
AL
36pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
The Flower Arrangement
2007
c.25
AL
20pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
The Flower Show
2007
c.25
AL
36pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
The Garden Party
2007
c.25
AL
36pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
The Flower Olympics
c.2009
c.25
AL
20pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Murder Most Floral
2010
c.25
AL
24pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Party Time at the Flower Nursery
2010
c.25
AL
20pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
The Prodigal Flower
c.2011
c.25
AL
20pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Tricks By Plants
c.2011
c.25
AL
24pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
A Nuclear Plant
c.2012
c.25
AL
16pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox folded with one stitch. With illustrations.
Collaborations
Title
Date
Edition size
Publisher
Description
My History. Aruna Witté
undated
un-numbered
AL
(Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox, folded with one stitch.
Bar Stool Stories. Joanne Schofield
undated
un-numbered
AL
24pp. P/b. Letterpress. Xerox. Card cover. With DVD.
Paul Vibert’s Reincarnation in St Ives of Joe Orton’s Edna Welthorpe
undated
c.30
AL
16pp. P/b. Xerox. Hand-stitched.
Paul Feiler
1990
150
AL
46pp. (Unpaginated) Letterpress. Two volumes in slip-case, both signed by the artist, first with 21 mounted colour illustrations, in original cloth & dust-jacket, second with 16 mounted illustrations forming a sewn flick book in paper sleeve. Small quarto.
28pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Letterpress. Soft cover, sewn in a single section. Tipped-in colour plates on virtually all pages.
Bill Marshall. St Ives Potter
2007
c.30
AL
24pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Hand-stitched into paper covers. Coloured photographs of works and other photographs.
Paul Newman. Writer
2008
c.30
AL
20pp. P/b. Hand-stitched. Xerox.
Wind Rushing By
2008
c.30
AL
64pp P/b. Xerox. Card cover. With DVD of films and songs, and photographs of the singers and musicians.
Carlos Zapata
2009
c.30
AL
28pp. P/b. Hand-stitched. Xerox. 20 cm x 15 cm
Des Hannigan. On Home Ground
2009
un-numbered c.30
AL
48pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Xerox. Card cover. Hand-stitched. With DVD.
The Only Non-slip Dodo Mat in the World
2013
50 (h/b)
Falmouth Art Gallery
132pp. H/b. (1st edition). Not letterpress. Thread sewn. First edition of 50 signed and numbered by AL with a tipped-in (oil) signature. Printed by Booth Print. 132pp. P/b. (2nd edition: edition size not known) to accompany a large constructed exhibition at Falmouth Art Gallery. Thread sewn. Colour illustrations. Printed by Booth Print.
Title
Date
Edition size
Publisher
Description
Derek Guthrie
2015
50
AL
40pp. P/b. Thread sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
Nina Royle. Black White and Red
2015
100
AL
30pp. P/b. Six poems drawing on NR’s study project visits to India and Japan as well as her native Cornwall and illustrated by her own artwork. Signed by the author to the title page and signed and numbered by AL, as publisher. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
Alternative Edens
2015
100
AL
26pp. P/b. Thread-sewn. With illustrations by Chris James. Printed by Booth Print.
Madame Eglantyne
2015
100
AL
32pp. P/b. Thread-sewn. Illustrated by Debbie Prosser. Printed by Booth Print.
She Fled
2017
200
AL
16pp. Thread-sewn. Pictures Debbie Prosser. Words by AL. Printed by Booth Print.
A Handbook of Tenses. Poems by Gary Matthews
2018
100
AL
72pp. Square format. Thread-sewn. Colour illustrations by AL. Printed by Booth Print.
Nameless Stations. Poems by Keith Spurgin
2018
100
AL
88pp. P/b. Thread-sewn. Illustrations by AL in colour. 8vo. Printed by Booth Print.
Falling for Columbine
2018
100
AL
52pp. P/b. Thread-sewn. Pictures by Debbie Prosser. Cover by Brian Hanscomb RE. Printed by Booth Print.
Mildew the Mermaid
2018
100
AL
26pp (Unpaginated) P/b. Thread-sewn. Pictures by Debbie Prosser. Printed by Booth Print.
Goya’s Maja
2019
200
AL
32pp (Unpaginated) P/b. Thread-sewn. Text by AL with pictures by Debbie Prosser. A7. Printed by Booth Print.
Photography
Title
Date
Edition size
Publisher
Description
Sept. 1969
The London Magazine
Seven photographs and the cover
Once Upon A Time Happily Ever After
1970
c.10
AL
Folded card only with original black and white photographs inside and text printed on an Adana hand-press. There may have been four different ones of these (definitely two).
The Casual Eye
1971
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
With Ian Barker. Catalogue for Northern Arts for exhibition about snapshot photography.
Snap! A ‘family album’
1974
Gordon Fraser
48pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Booklet of photographs ‘compiled and juxtaposed by Andrew Lanyon’. Printed on black paper throughout. B/w photographs throughout.
The Rooks of Trelawne
1976
The Photographers’ Gallery, London
64pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Illustrations include Jonathan Couch, Gilbert White and Richard Quiller-Couch and archive photographs. Size: 4to – over 9¾” – 12″ tall. Book accompanied a large constructed exhibition built for The Photographers’ Gallery which ended up in the St. Ives Museum for 30 years.
A St Ives Album
1979
Alison Hodge, Penzance
72pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. 92 b/w photographs of old St Ives.
The Vanishing Cabinet – a Photographic Illusion
1980
Travelling Light
72pp. Colour and b&w illustrations. Card covers. Book accompanied a large constructed exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery which travelled to Bristol and then the Penwith Gallery in St. Ives.
Cornwall
1983
Alison Hodge, Penzance
80pp. H/b with dust jacket. Introduced by William Feaver. Drawings by Peter Lanyon, photographs by Andrew Lanyon. Full page illustrations of Peter Lanyon’s drawings alongside photographs by AL.
Cornwall at the Crossroads: Living Communities or Leisure Zones?
1988
Cornish Social and Economic Research Group, Redruth
P/b. Bernard Deacon, Andrew George, Ronald Perry. Photographs by AL.
Six Feet to Infinity
2012
150
AL & Art Jericho
156pp. (Unpaginated) H/b in dustjacket. Photographs taken by AL in the 60s and 70s. Printed by Booth Print.
Landscape or Portrait? – Biography of a Photographer
In addition, a contributor to Album photography magazine, Ambit poetry magazine, Peninsular Voice, Creative Camera and The London Magazine.
Cornwall
See under Photography for:
Cornwall at the Crossroads
The Rooks of Trelawne
A St Ives Album
Cornwall
Title
Date
Edition size
Publisher
Description
The First and Last Straw (A Sou’western In Kernowvision by One and All)
c. 1994
unknown
AL
32pp. (Unpaginated) Letterpress cover only. Drawings by Sam Lanyon. Most colour-plates tipped-in. Fawn card covers, folded and sewn with black lettering and a map of Cornwall stamped ‘Cancelled’ to the back cover. 6.25” x 4.75”
Now You See It. A Cornish Pastiche
1994
250
AL
28pp. (Unpaginated) Letterpress cover. Card wraps. Selection of comments on the subject of Cornwall with tipped-in photographs and jokes.
Roundabout West Cornwall
c. 1995
unknown
AL
28pp. (Unpaginated) Small format paperback stapled into card covers.
Plot for Sale or Going, Going, Gone (The Cornish Book of the Dead)
1996
252
AL
32pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Letterpress cover and title page only. Folded and stitched once in a single section into card cover. Tipped-in colour plates.
Old Iron: Alfred Wallis: 1855–1942
1998
200
AL
58pp. H/b. Letterpress. White dustjacket with a slip-case. Tipped-in illustrations. With Dr Roger Slack & Peter Mates.
Bill Marshall. St Ives Potter
2007
c.30
AL
24pp. (Unpaginated) P/b. Hand-stitched into paper covers. Xerox. Coloured photographs of works and other photographs.
Von Ribbentrop in St Ives: Art and War in the Last Resort
2010 (h/b) 2011 (p/b)
Kestle Barton
98pp. 1st edition h/back; 2nd edition p/back. Unnumbered. Colour illustrations throughout. 22 x 16 cm. This book accompanied a large constructed exhibition which travelled from Kestle Barton to Peer Gallery, London, and then to Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, where The Daughters of Radon was added [see below].
The Daughters of Radon
2011
200 (h/b)
AL
88pp. H/b with dustjacket. Thread sewn. To accompany constructed exhibition, being added to the larger constructed exhibition, Von Ribbentrop in St. Ives, when this travelled to Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. Printed by Booth Print.
Rabelais and Cervantes on the road to Cornwall
2023
10 (h/b) 150 (p/b)
AL
302pp. Rabelais and Cervantes are imagined as travellers to the tin mines of Cornwall. During their journey by carriage across moorland, they discuss the nature of writing. Colour illustrations. Printed by Booth Print. See an extract from the book as a short film. See this review.
Miscellaneous
Title
Date
Edition size
Publisher
Description
DIY Art
un-dated
c. 30
AL
16pp. P/b. Xerox. Folded and sewn.
44
3
AL
Details unknown
Once Upon a Time
c. 1975
c.6
AL
P/b. Six tipped in black and white photographs. Printed on an Adana press. Card covers.
Wires That Others Pull
1993
250
AL
28pp. Unpaginated. P/b. Letterpress cover. Tipped-in offset litho text and colour plates. Letterpress line blocks on Zerkall cream paper. One moving image. Stitched in one section. Published to accompany historical and contemporary exhibitions arranged for the 1993 Penzance International Festival of Puppetry.
Jack-a-Lent Mawkin Scarecrow
1993
200
AL
10pp. Unpaginated. P/b. Small format, stapled into cream card letterpress cover. Tipped-in text and illustrations.
The Vicious Circle
c. 1994
17
AL
Details unknown
The Moving Finger Writes
1994
5
AL
Details unknown
By Word Of Mouth
1994
17
AL
H/b. Not letterpress, except title page. Tipped in Xerox colour plates and text.
A Book Of Hours
1994
c.5
AL
Details unknown
The Helping Hand. An Artists’ And Collectors’ Accessory
c. 1995
250
AL
16pp. Unpaginated. P/b. Hand-stitched into card cover, sewn in one section. Offset litho. Numerous tipped-in colour & b/w plates. Size: 41/2” wide x 6″ tall.
The Vegetable Plot
2002
150
AL
32pp. Unpaginated. Letterpress. P/b. Folded and stitched once in a single section into card cover. Tipped-in colour plates. [This is not the ‘The Vegetable Plot’ that forms one of the three stories in Two Across Two Down.]
Art Seeds (with Instructions)
2003
150
AL
24pp. Unpaginated. P/b. Xerox. Images of seeds which, when planted, burgeon into works by Dali, Miró, etc. Soft cover. Folded and sewn.
Counterart Manifesto
2004
300
AL
18pp. Unpaginated. P/b. Near-pamphlet format paperback hand-stitched into letterpress card covers. Numerous tipped in Xerox colour plates. With Derek Guthrie and Paul Spooner.
Anti-Lit Manifesto
c. 2005
50
AL
P/b. Not letterpress.
To the Comedy
2007
c. 30
AL
24pp. Unpaginated. P/b. Xerox. Folded and sewn.
The Same Old Tricks
2008
c.20
AL
20pp. P/b. Xerox. Folded and sewn.
The Origins of Species. From Crumbs
2008
c. 30
AL
20pp. Unpaginated. P/b. Pamphlet paperback hand stitched. Dedicated to all food everywhere.
Catalogue to Forthcoming Sale of Gifts exchanged between Radon and his Daughters
2011
c. 30
AL
18pp. Unpaginated. P/b. Xerox. Folded and sewn. Letterpress card cover.
Catalogue to Forthcoming Sale of Exquisite Corpse
c. 2011
c. 30
AL
44pp. Unpaginated. Xerox. Folded and sewn.
Grandfather Browne
2015
50
AL
40pp. Unpaginated. P/b. Not letterpress. Thread sewn. Printed by Booth Print. Signed and numbered.
The Musings of Creatures Imagined in a Barren Land
2016
500
AL and Falmouth Art Gallery
94pp. P/b. Not letterpress. Published to accompany an exhibition held at Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall, 22 February – 19 March 2016. With illustrations by many others. Thread sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
Falling for Columbine
2018
100
AL
54pp. Words Andrew Lanyon. Pictures Debbie Prosser. Cover Brian Hanscomb RE. Card cover. Thread sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
Nature’s Laboratory
2018
250
Falmouth Art Gallery
127pp. P/b. To accompany an exhibition at Falmouth Art Gallery with c. 37 Cornish artists. It also showed at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. Oblong. Thread sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
Two Across Two Down: a journey from fact via fiction to fantasy and back
2019
100
AL
40pp. Unpaginated. P/b. Not letterpress. An imaginary collection of three stories (The Carbon Copy; The Vegetable Plot; The Page Turner). Hand-written annotations. Card cover. Thread sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
Into the Woods: A Romance
2019
100
AL
56pp. Unpaginated. P/b. A combination of poetry and prose. Includes illustrations of paintings exhibited at the Beaux Art Gallery in 2019/20, as well as other illustrations, including by WH Lanyon, Brian Hanscomb RE and Peter Lanyon. Thread sewn. Printed by Booth Print.
The Jewel Thief
2020
100
AL
P/b. Illustrated by Chris James. Thread sewn.
Big Bo-Peep
2022
100
AL
40pp. P/b. Purporting to be a scholar’s translation of anonymous secular doggerel, written on vellum and found in West Cornwall. Words Andrew Lanyon. Pictures Debbie Prosser. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print. Signed and numbered.
Rabelais and Cervantes on the road to Cornwall
See the entry in the ‘Cornwall’ section for full details.
Exhibition catalogues, other than books to accompany exhibitions
Title
Date
Edition size
Publisher
Description
Exhibition of Surrealist Painting [Durham Surrealist Festival 18 Nov. – 6 December 1968]
1969
Ian Barker
49pp. AbeBooks describes this as ‘Rare catalogue from the first surrealist festival to be held in the North of England’. Appears to be listed in the Tate Gallery: illustrated catalogue of acquisitions, 1984. Octavo. With Ian Barker.
Cornualha : pintura e desenho-Peter Lanyon : Andrew Lanyon-fotografias
1984
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Photographs by AL. With Rachel Kirby and Américo da Silva. For an exhibition in Lisbon by the British Council, London.
Cornualles Peter Lanyon, óleos y dibujos
1985
‘González Martín’ Museum, Valencia
Photographs by AL. For an exhibition in the Museo Nacional de Cerámica “González Martín”, Valencia, Spain, by the British Council, London.
Wires That Others Pull – A Brief Introduction to Puppetry from Scarecrows to the Animated Cartoon
1993
250
AL
Unpaginated. Small format letterpress paperback hand-stitched into card covers. Published to accompany historical and contemporary exhibitions arranged for the 1993 Penzance International Festival of Puppetry.
Andrew Lanyon
Dec. 2007
Goldfish Contemporary Fine Art
Catalogue to accompany exhibition of paintings at Goldfish Contemporary Fine Art
The Casual Eye
Cambridge Chadwyck-Healey
Catalogue for Northern Arts exhibition about snapshots. With Ian Barker.
A Childhood with the Surrealists
2012
Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth
56pp. Louise Connell, Mel Gooding, Antony Penrose and Donna Williams. Cover subtitle: Andrew Lanyon, Antony Penrose. Published to accompany an exhibition held at Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall, 21 January 2012 – 3 March 2012.
Andrew Lanyon
2019
Beaux Arts, London
Catalogue to accompany exhibition of paintings at Beaux Arts, London, 4 December 2019 – 1 February 2020
Selected articles by Andrew Lanyon
Alice in Cameraland
October 1982
AL
History of Photography, Vol. 6 Issue 4. pp.367–369 Published online: 1 October 2013.
A Polperro Fishwife
June 1984
AL
History of Photography, Vol. 8 Issue 2. pp.89-98 Published online: 1 Oct 2013.
The First Cornish Photographs?
October–December 1984
AL
History of Photography, Vol. 8 Issue 4. pp.333–336