Lawrence, Simon, b 1958

The Fleece Press is a private printing press and publisher, owned and run by Simon Lawrence. The press publishes books in limited editions that have usually included illustrations printed from wood-engravings.

Simon Lawrence produced his first book ( S. T. E. Lawrence: Boxwood Blockmaker. Wood-engravings collected in honour of his eightieth birthday, Wakefield: Simon Lawrence, printed by the Whittington Press, 1980) in 1980 as an eightieth birthday gift for his grandfather, Stanley T. E. Lawrence. Stanley Lawrence then ran the family firm of T.N. Lawrence and Son, which supplied equipment, including woodblocks, for printers and engravers.

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