Books - Andrew Lanyon - 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.

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.

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.
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. 1^st 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 (1^st 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 (2^nd 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.
What’s What at Rowley Hall	2023	75	AL	37pp. P/b. Illustrated. Landscape. Thread-sewn. Printed by Booth Print. Signed and numbered.

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.

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.
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. (1^st 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. (2^nd 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	2021			See an excerpt of the book here

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. 1^st edition h/back; 2^nd 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.

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