Designing books for scholarly publishers
such as the British Library.

Printing letterpress books and other material
for individuals, private companies, and not-for-profit organisations such as The Worsdworth Trust.

Creating unique "one-off" bindings

and small edition binding for collectors and publishers such as the Peoples Archive

Publishing fine press and artist's books
under the Solmentes Press and Solmentes imprints.

And much more . . .

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News

Solmentes Press to exhibit in UK at the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair 7–8 November, 2009
David Esslemont will be showing and selling The Folly and Wickedness of War, All in Good Time, The Prelude, To Autumn, My Fellow Citizens and previewing his new flower portfolio.

All in Good Time part of national exhibition.
The Guild of Book Workers exhibition "Marking Time" is currently at San Francisco Public Library, it travels throughout the USA for two years.

Solmentes books bought by libraries in Australia and New Zealand
In New Zealand the Otago Library and Auckland Public Libraries have added copies of John Keats To Autumn to their Solmentes collections, while Australia's State library of Victoria has bought a copy of My Fellow Citizens (Barack Obama's innaugural address).