At Aspen Press we produce a range of cards and stationery.
Using traditional methods, we produce useful, beautiful products.
We hand set movable lead type on a variety of letterpress machines including a vintage Golding Pearl treadle press built in 1910 using high quality paper and card milled in the United Kingdom. Whenever possible we prefer to use paper from English mills who have strong sustainability policies but we do use other papers on occasion. Samples are available on request.
Our notebooks are hand stitched and hand trimmed.
From design to delivery we hand produce small batches of products that are available through our Etsy shop, through a small network of stockists and at selected events.
In addition to producing our own range of in-house designed cards and stationery, we occasionally take on collaborations and commission work utilising our large library of vintage typefaces and ornaments.
This catalogue shows our products that are available for wholesale outlets. Prices can be obtained through the contact page on our website.
125mm square folded letterpress cards
Small Thank You Cards with Envelopes in various typefaces. Also available in boxes of 8
5 Printers’ Ornaments folded letterpress notelets with envelopes
10 Printers’ Ornaments flat letterpress notelets with envelopes in clear-lidded box
Packs of 4 letterpress postcards
15 Printers’ Ornaments flat letterpress notelets with envelopes in gift box
Hand stitched A6 kraft cover hot foiled notebooks in various designs
Hand stitched A5 notebooks in various colours
Small (90mm x 115mm) hand foiled folded cards in various designs and colours
10 WISDOM Quotation Cards
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr - 12point Typewriter 12point Typewriter
In the end we will remember not the works of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr - 16point Goudy Franciscan 14point Perpetua Italic
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on, it is going on when your don’t have strength.
Napoleon Bonaparte - 14point Gill Sans 12point Raleigh Cursive
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
Confucius - 24point Dorchester 18point Dorchester
The man who does not read, has no advantage over a man who cannot read.
Mark Twain - 18point Joanna 18point Joanna
When I was 14 my father knew nothing, but when I reached the age of 21, I was amazed at how much he had learned.
Mark Twain - 14point Perpetua 14point Perpetua
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you sow.
Robert Louis Stevenson - 18point Gill Sans 18point Perpetua
When you forgive you do not change the past, you change the future.
Bernard Meltzer - 14point Times 12point Gill Italic
Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.
Leonard Cohen - 16point Goudy Franciscan 16poinjt Goudy Franciscan
Never confuse movement with action.
Ernest Hemingway - 30point Goudy Old Style 24point French Rondo
A series of themed, letterpress printed, quotation cards in various typefaces packaged with a display stand handmade from Suffolk oak.10 LOVE Quotation Cards
When I saw you I fell in LOVE, and you smiled because you knew.
William Shakespeare - 14point Gill 12point Raleigh Cursive LOVE is like the wind, you can’s see it but you can feel it.
Nicholas Sparks - 14point Perpetua 12point Perpetua Happiness is like a kiss, you must share it to enjoy it.
Bernard Meltzer - 12point Typewriter 12point Gill Sans LOVE is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost - 14point Times12point Gill Sans
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
Khalil Gibran - 18point Joanna 12point Times
We may give without loving, but we cannot LOVE without giving.
Bernard Meltzer - 12point Studio 12point Gill Italic Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle - 12point Gill Sans 12point Gill Sans Italic I have fallen in love many times…always with you.
ANON - 18point Plantin 12point Gill Sans I don’t want to kiss you goodbye, I want to kiss you goodnight.
Ernest Hemingway - 14point Times 12point Times Italic Age does not protect you from LOVE but LOVE may protect you from age.
Anais Nin - 12point Times 10point Times Italic
10 FRIENDSHIP Quotation Cards
Don’t walk behind me I may not lead, Don’t walk in front of me I may not follow, Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus - 16point Goudy Fransican 16point Goudy Franciscan
A true friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
Walter Winchell - 24point French Rondo 12point Times Italic Time doesn’t take away from friendship not does separation.
Tennessee Williams - 14point Gill Sans 14point Gill Sans I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
Helen Keller - 18point Joanna 12point Gill Sans
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, and never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran - 12point Typewriter 12point Typewriter
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it’s a friend with chocolate.
Linda Grayson - 18point Joanna 12point Gill Sans
A true friend is someone who thinks you are a good egg even though they know you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer - 24point French Rondo 12point Times Italic
Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and wait to hear your answer.
Ed Cunningham - 12point Raleigh Cursive 12point Raleigh Cursive Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
Rabinranath Tagore - 18point Gill Sans 12point Gill Sans
A friend is someone who give you total freedom to be yourself.
Jim Morrison - 18point Temple Script 18point Temple Script
10 GARDENING Quotation Cards
If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need.
Cicero - 24point Mercury
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
Gertrude Jekyll - 18point Parisian Rondo
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
Indian Proverb - 14point Goudy Italic 16point Goudy Franciscan
I like gardening, it’s a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.
Alice Sebold - 18point Temple 14point Perpetua
The more one gardens, the more one learns; and the more one learns the more one realises how little one knows.
Vita Sackville West - 18point Parisian Rondo
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
Audrey Hepburn - 24point San Serif Light 16point Goudy Franciscan
Live everyday as if it were your last and garden as though you will live forever.
Scottish Proverb - 24point San Serif Light 18point Parisian Rondo
Life begins the day we plant a garden.
Chinese Proverb - 18point Verona Light 16point Goudy Franciscan
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine nor a garden without love.
Chinese Proverb - 14point Goudy 16point Goudy Franciscan
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or we can rejoice that thorn buses have roses.
Abraham Lincoln - 14point Perpetua.
10 INSPIRATION Quotation Cards
Not all who wander are lost.
J.R.R.Tolkien - 24point Perpetua 12point Perpetua
Don’t look back you’re not going that way.
ANON - 12point Gill Sans12 point Gill Sans Light
You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great.
Zig Zigler - 14point Times 12point Gill Sans
Have enough courage to trust LOVE one more time, and always one more time.
Maya Angelou - 12point Typewriter 12point Gill Sans Italic
People will forget what you said, they will forget what you did, but never forget how you made the feel.
Maya Angelou - 12point Perpetua 12point Raleigh Cursive
You are not a drop in the ocean, you are an ocean in a drop.
Rumi - 10 point Gill Sans 12point Gill Sans Italic
Don’t cry because its over, smile because it happened.
Dr Seuss - 18point Dorchester 14point Dorchester
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverley Sills - 14point Perpetua 14point Perpetua Italic
Do not go where the path may go, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - 14point Gill Sans 12point Gill Italic
When it’s dark enough you can see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - 18point Gill Sans 12 point Gill Sans Italic
10 BOOK Quotation Cards
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t new at all.
Abraham Lincoln - 18point Joanna 12point Gill Italic
Never give a child a book you wouldn’t read yourself.
George Bernard Shaw - 12point Studio 12point Gill
We read to know are not alone.
William Nicholson - 30point Niconne 12point Madonna Rondo
A true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.
Tobias Wolf - 18point Temple 12point Times
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
Ernest Hemingway - 24point Gill 12point Times
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor - 24point Dorchester 18point Dorchester
I am not addicted to reading, I can quit as soon as I finish one more chapter.
Jason - 14point Klang - 12point Gill
Every book burned enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - 18point Goudy 12point Times
So many books, so little time.
Frank Zappa - 24point Civilité 12point Times
Never judge a book by the movie.
J.W.Eagan - 18point Perpetua 12point Perpetua
10 COMPOSER Quotation Cards
To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein - 18point Goudy Old Style 10 point Gill Sans
I many not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
Richard Strauss - 24point Dorchester 18point Dorchester
It’s easy to play any musical instrument; all you have to do is touch the right keys at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
Johann Sebastian Bach - 16point Goudy Franciscan 14point Times Italic Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.
Giacchino Rossini - 18point Joanna 12point Gill Sans
The only love affair I ever had was with music.
Maurice Ravel - 14point Goudy Cursive 12point Times Italic Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
Claude Debussy - 16point Goudy Franciscan 12point Times
Life is a lot like jazz, it is best when you improvise.
George Gershwin - 24point Imprint Shadow 18point Imprint Shadow Without craftsmanship inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
Johannes Brahms - 18point Plantin 12point Gill Sans Italic
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein - 18point Joanna 10point Gill Sans Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky - 16point Goudy Franciscan 12point Times
