James Freemantle

James Freemantle (born 1979) is an English bibliographer, private press historian, printer and book-collector. He is a co-Editor of The Private Library, the journal of the Private Libraries Association, alongside David John Chambers and others. He writes or has written for The Private Library, Parenthesis (Fine Press Book Association), and Matrix (Whittington Press), amongst others. He is a member of the Oxford Guild of Printers and the Double Crown Club. He has been a Judge at the Oxford Fine Press Fair, and is the proprietor of the St James Park Press, a Fine press printing by letterpress.

Select bibliography

  • The 1931 Ashendene Press Daphnis & Chloe (The Private Library (Private Libraries Association), 6th Series, Vol. 5:4, 2012)
  • Vellum (The Private Library (Private Libraries Association), 6th Series, Vol. 6:4, 2013)
  • Golden Cockerel Press Flinders' Voyage (The Private Library (Private Libraries Association), 6th Series, Vol. 7:1, 2014)
  • I. M. Imprimit (The Private Press Today (St Bride Exhibition), 2015)
  • Fine Press Report (Parenthesis, Journal of the Fine Press Book Association, Spring 2016, No. 30 (ed. Sebastian Carter)
  • The Engravings of Mark Arman (Matrix 34, Whittington Press, 2017)