James Freemantle


James Freemantle is an English bibliographer, private press historian, printer and book-collector.
His official posts include as Chairman of the Private Libraries Association, Trustee and Honorary Secretary of Milton's Cottage, and Member of the Double Crown Club, for which he is also Dinner Secretary.
He has written for journals and magazines including ', ', ', ' and , amongst others and has published a book on the History of the Caradoc Press.
He has been a Judge at the Oxford Fine Press Fair, curated an exhibition on the Private Press editions of Milton's , engaged in speaking engagements on the history of the book, including at the and before the , and been interviewed by , and
James is also the proprietor of the , a Fine press printing by letterpress in London, England, whose work is in the collections of the National Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Library at Tate Britain, and the Bodleian Library, and has been exhibited at Bath Spa University, the Museum of English Rural Life, and the University of York, amongst others.

Select writing

  1. The 1931 Ashendene Press Daphnis & Chloe
  2. Vellum
  3. Golden Cockerel Press Flinders' Voyage
  4. I. M. Imprimit
  5. Fine Press Report
  6. The Engravings of Mark Arman
  7. The Caradoc Press
  8. Paradise Lost and the Private Presses
  9. The Diary of a Pressman
  10. Collecting Whittington Posters
  11. Book Fair Report
  12. The Art Society Press

    Select St James Park Press publications

  13. The Twelve Labours of Hercules
  14. On the Birmingham School of Art, 1940 - see Eric Gill
  15. An Albion in the Antarctic - the definitive study for Aurora Australis
  16. King Arthur
  17. Nineteen Eighty-Four