The ‘Periscope Press’ is the private press of Tim Honnor.
Tim served in nine Royal Naval Submarines from 1963 – 1979.
In 1983 Tim retired from the Royal Navy and founded the ‘Piccolo Press’ in Nairn, one of the most prestigious specialist printers in the UK. He was the editor of ‘Small Printer’, the monthly magazine of the British Printing Society, Chairman of the British Engraved Stationery Association (BESA) and a member of the British Printing Historical Society and the Oxford Guild of Printers. He is also a trustee of the Scottish Print Archival Trust.
I suppose he could be called a ‘Print Nutter’!
He now has a print-shop adjoining his house near Inverness and does most of his printing on a beautiful ‘Arab’ Platen, made in 1900.
It is generally understood that the term ‘Private Press’ is where the work is hand-set and hand-printed. Its editions, moreover, are likely to be limited in number.
