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.
Some of the titles can be purchased at the BookartBookshop in Hoxton, London, Barton Books in Penzance or online at Tim Kendall Carpenter. ‘Circular Walks Around Rowley Hall’ is also available directly from Atlas Press.
Morrab Library in Penzance, Cornwall hold copies of all published books (available for viewing only).
See Reviews page for comments on some of the books.
Read a review of Rabelais and Cervantes on the Road to Cornwall, published 2023.
The Rowley Books
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. Read Reviews |
| 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. Read Reviews |
| 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. Read Reviews |
| 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. Read Reviews |
| 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. Read Reviews |
| 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. Read Reviews |
| 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. Read Reviews |
| 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 Read Reviews |
| A Persistence of Visions | 2002 | 150 | AL | 74pp. Letterpress, casebound, thread-sewn, in a slip-case with tipped-in colour plates. Oblong. Read Reviews |
| 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. Read Reviews |
| A Novel Solution | 2004 | 150 | AL | 56pp. Letterpress, casebound, white dustjacket, thread-sewn, in a slip-case with tipped-in colour plates. Oblong. Read Reviews |
| 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 Read Reviews |
| 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. Read Reviews |
| 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. Read Reviews |
| 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. Read Reviews |
| 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. Read Reviews |
| 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 Some Minor Characters at Rowley Hall The Analyst’s Couch at Rowley Hall Ambrose Fortescue’s Notes for a Memoir Discovered at Rowley Hall A Little More Light on the Rowleys The Art Plot: The Closely Guarded Secret of Saint Ives An Affinity with Eternity and Infinity at Rowley Hall The Closet Artist and the Iconoclast | 2023 2024 2024 2024 2024 2024 2024 2024 | 75 75 75 150 75 250 75 75 | AL AL AL AL AL AL AL AL | 36pp. P/b. Illustrated. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print. 36pp. P/b. Illustrated by Debbie Prosser ‘(mostly)’, AL and Richard Sorrell. Dedication ‘For Chris Smith, inventor of Pinpoint and Odessa’. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print. 30pp. P/b. Illustrated. Dedication ‘For Rémy Aquarone’. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print. 40pp. P/b. Illustrations by Chris James. Dedication ‘For Dave Slater, the embodiment of the inimitable Fortescue, and for Evie May, Aila, Otto and Ida’. For films about Mr Fortescue, see ‘Andrew Lanyon Films’ on YouTube. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print. 44pp. P/b. Illustrated by AL and Richard Sorrell. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print. 36pp. P/b. Illustrated. Reveals the secret behind the paintings of Alfred Wallis, Peter Lanyon and Bryan Pearce. ‘For more nonsense about Wallis see YouTube Andrew Lanyon Films “A Wood near Madrid”.’ Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print. 36pp. P/b. Illustrated. This discusses Space and Time at Rowley Hall, and includes an ‘introduction to the catalogue for an exhibition in Italy of objects and artefacts loaned from the Rowley Museum’. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print. 40pp. P/b. Illustrated. Dedication ‘for Mike and Sarah’. Further insights into Space and Time. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print. |
| 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. Read Reviews |
| 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. Read Reviews |
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. |
| Paul Spooner’s Anubis Divides the Ocean | 1997 | 250 | AL | 28pp. (Unpaginated) Letterpress. Hand-stitched. Tipped-in colour plates. |
| David Kemp’s Call from the Wild | 1997 | 250 | AL | 28pp. (Unpaginated) Letterpress. Hand-stitched. Tipped-in colour plates. |
| Vertigo. Poems by Christiane Kupke | 1998 | 200 | AL | 32pp. (Unpaginated) Letterpress. P/b. Small format paperback hand-stitched. Soft cover. Tipped-in colour plates of photographs by AL. |
| Lionel Miskin’s Ineffable Passion | 1998 | 200 | AL | 28pp. (Unpaginated) Letterpress. Small format paperback hand-stitched. Many tipped-in illustrations. |
| Keith Spurgin’s Abandoned Filling Station | 2001 | 200 | AL | 30pp. P/b. Letterpress. Hand-stitched. Numerous tipped-in colour plates and b/w illustrations to the text. |
| Paul Spooner’s Xan Xi Drinks the Sea | 2001 | 200 | AL | 28pp. (Unpaginated) Letterpress. Hand-stitched. Tipped-in colour plates. |
| Title | Date | Edition size | Publisher | Description |
| Dave Scott’s Napoleon | 2001 | 204 | AL | 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. Read Reviews |
| 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. Read Reviews | |
| 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 | 2021 | See an excerpt of the book here |
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 |