By Lydia Kennaway

The Marker Committee is a collection of poems exploring the ephemerality of the written word and our compulsion to leave our mark.

Inspired by the American committee of the same name, which sought to create signs for places no longer fit for human habitation, the poems consider what happens when communication falters, fragments, or fails.

Every poem is inspired by different ways of thinking abut printing, from letterpress to dot matrix to linocut. Edition of 100 printed and bound at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print.

Concerning the Work by Michael Cope is the first full-length fine press publication from Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print.

£195, plus shipping. For international shipping or collection, please email thinicepress@york.ac.uk.

An elegant and functional poster showing the layout of the typecase used at Thin Ice Press. The compartments are printed using the reverse of ninety-five wood type sorts, creating texture through an experimentation with process.

£60 plus domestic shipping. For international shipping or collection, please email thinicepress@york.ac.uk.

Printed for a York festival featuring public workshops and light projections on historic buildings. This edition of 50 prints explores transparency and the colours created through overprinting.

£50 plus domestic shipping. For international shipping or collection, please email thinicepress@york.ac.uk.

By Thin Ice Press

Have you ever wanted to judge a book in a day? Do you believe the proof of the pudding makes a good ending? Or that many hands speak louder than words?

Welcome to Anteverbs, a sprightly collection of cut-and-shut proverbs for the twenty-first century. Enjoy these words not to live by, and profit from the mashed-up wisdom of yore.

Set in Van Dijck and printed on Colorplan Natural 135gsm paper. Bound by the printers.

An edition of 100 copies, priced at £25.

Duke Senior's opening lines from Act II, Scene I of As You Like It by William Shakespeare. Linocut by Izzy Williamson, printed alongside handset metal type.

£15 plus domestic shipping. For international shipping or collection, please email thinicepress@york.ac.uk.

Limited edition prints in collaboration with Harewood House for Austen & Turner: A Country House Encounter. Words by Jane Austen and J. M. W. Turner, printed at Thin Ice Press.

Printed at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print in an edition of 15 A4 copies available at £20 plus domestic shipping. For international shipping or collection, please email thinicepress@york.ac.uk.

Limited edition prints in collaboration with Harewood House for Austen & Turner: A Country House Encounter. Words by Jane Austen and J. M. W. Turner, printed at Thin Ice Press.

Printed at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print in an edition of 15 A4 copies available at £20 plus domestic shipping. For international shipping or collection, please email thinicepress@york.ac.uk.

Poem by Lydia Kennaway

The Marker Committee is a collection of poems exploring the ephemerality of the written word and our compulsion to leave our mark.

At the centre of the book is a poem recounting the remarkable story of the Doves Press. Its founders, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker, set out to create the most beautiful books known to man, but their partnership ended in conflict. Rather than allow the type to pass to Walker after his death, Cobden-Sanderson secretly cast it into the River Thames from Hammersmith Bridge. The final letters of this poem have been printed using original Doves type mudlarker from one of the largest surviving collections: type that lay beneath the murky waters of the Thames for over a century before being recovered.

Edition of 45 broadsides printed at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print on RWS Handmade Imperial paper.

The name 'Thin Ice Press' is a tribute to York’s own Thomas Gent, an 18th-century printer who famously operated a makeshift press on the frozen River Ouse in 1739. This linocut is inspired by a woodcut in a private collection.

£15 plus domestic shipping. For international shipping or collection, please email thinicepress@york.ac.uk.

A section of City of Marvels by J. R. Carpenter that celebrates J. R.'s first ever visit to Thin Ice Press. A celebration of everyday York, J. R.'s poems have an eye for detail and an ear for the sounds of York, past and present.

A limited edition poster printed Risograph and letterpress at Thin Ice Press.

£15 plus domestic shipping. For international shipping or collection, please email thinicepress@york.ac.uk.

This linocut, copied from 1761 woodcut, shows Thomas Gent’s printing house in York’s Coffee Yard. The verse is taken from The Life of Mr, Thomas Gent, printer, of York (1746).

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By Becca Drake

A collection of poems by Becca Drake, written during a residency for Hull Maritime Museum in 2021. Their work focuses on maritime environments and the place of the human in the natural world.

Printed letterpress with linocut illustrations. Bound by the printers. £20.

By Jessie Summerhayes

Poet Jessie Summerhayes wrote these thought-provoking, playful poems in celebration of Coney Street, York's ancient high street. 'How Many Coats?' captures the ripples of the street's long history, while 'NAME OF OTHER POEM' asks what the past might look like if instead of meaning 'King's', the word 'Coney' was taken from coney, an old word for rabbit?

This book isn't just about Coney Street, it was also printed there. The Thin Ice Press team collaborated with Jessie to print this limited edition chapbook on our 1845 Columbian press in a temporary venue before we moved to our new premises.

Two Poems on Coney Street is set in Centaur type, and was printed in June 2022 on Coney Street, York on an 1845 Columbian press.

An edition of 75 copies, priced at £20. Available now.

On 28th April, 1763, J. Redferne recorded that The Sorrowful Guild of Master Ghostmakers had opened their premises at St Saviourgate to the public. This print imagines the Guild’s first advertisement, from the same day.

Printed letterpress and linocut on Fabriano Rosaspina Ivory 220 gsm with hand torn edges. Size 30x42 cm.

Limited edition print from an edition of 200 created at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print in collaboration with the York Ghost Merchants.

The crafts of letterpress printing and ghostmaking meet in this print celebrating the iconic shape of the original York Ghosts. The texts comes from the diary of J. Redferne, the bookseller who rediscovered Yorkshire’s ghostmaking legacy.

Printed letterpress and linocut on Fabriano Rosaspina Ivory 220 gsm with hand torn edges. Size 30x42 cm.

Limited edition print from an edition of 200 created at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print in collaboration with the York Ghost Merchants.

The poem, by Wordsworth, was published c.1830 as a chapbook by James Kendrew, a York printer who specialised in cheap books for the masses. This haunting poem explores how the ties between loved ones endure after death

Printed letterpress and linocut on Fabriano Rosaspina Ivory 220 gsm with hand torn edges. Size 30x42 cm.

Limited edition print from an edition of 200 created at Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print in collaboration with the York Ghost Merchants.