The New Arcadian Journal
Current edition: NAJ 81/82, Virtuous Landscapes marks the centenary of the birth of Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1925-2006.
Previous edition: NAJ 79/80 (2024), The Georgian Landscape of Wentworth Castle, 3rd edition. See below for other publications relating to the Yorkshire Wentworths.
Displays & Talks
The Lost Landscapes of Ian Hamilton Finlay. Library Display, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 28 November 2025 to 19 April 2026. By publishing proposals for unrealized commissions, the New Arcadian Press has compiled a printed archive of these lost landscapes. The 80 realised landscape installations are catalogued in NAJ 61/62 (2007) Selected Landscapes.
The Artists’ Book Market, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Free entry. 14-15 February 2026. Sat 10.30 – 6 and Sun 10.30 – 5. Patrick Eyres will display and discuss the New Arcadian Journals.
Talk. The New Arcadian Press: Lost Artists’ Gardens by Patrick Eyres, 2 pm Saturday 14 February, The Artists’ Book Market, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2026. Free. The talk will showcase works by artists involved in the New Arcadian Journal that champion the study of political gardening and the promoting the restoration of place and meaning. The talk explores lost artists’ gardens, and the retrieval of Ian Hamilton Finlay’s proposals for his cancelled Parisian gardens.
Talk. The New Arcadian Journal by Patrick Eyres, 7.30 pm, 11 March 2026, York Bibliographical Society at the York Medical Society Rooms, 23 Stonegate, York. YO1 8AW. For non members of the YBS there is a small fee of £5.
Back Issues
This website is the most economic place to collect New Arcadian Journals and other publications from the New Arcadian Press. NB. NAJs are discounted at book fairs.
- Back Issues. NAJs range in price from £20 to £30 UK inc mailing, and £30 to £45 Airmail. For details, see Portfolio & Shop above. To order by email, see Contact Us.
- PDFs available. See which out-of-print titles are available (half price and no mailing charge).
- See Reviews and Bibliography for some of the published appreciations and commentaries. For an original perspective, see Karyn Hinkle’s article ‘On Publishing Scholarly Journals as Artists’ Books: Yorkshire’s New Arcadian Journal‘ (2020).
Still available / Other publications
- The Yorkshire Wentworths: Wentworth Castle and Wentworth Woodhouse. Three books available as PDFs: see Wentworth Castle and Georgian Political Gardening, and Lord Raby at Berlin, The Hague and Wentworth Castle, and The Yorkshire Red Books of Humphry Repton. Four NAJs remain in print: NAJ 69/70, The Blackamoor, and NAJ 71/72, Rockingham Whig Landscapes, NAJ 73/74, Georgian Wentworth Woodhouse 2nd edn, and NAJ 79/80, Georgian Wentworth Castle 3rd edn.
- The Ian Hamilton Finlay Collection: For the companion to the latest NAJ, see NAJ 77/78, Atlantic Flowers, also realised through the generous permissions granted by the Ian Hamilton Finlay Estate. Since 1981 the New Arcadian Press has published many works by or relating to Finlay. Many are still available ~ 7 NAJs, 11 Broadsheets, 1 small book and 5 cards ~ as a set (£380, excluding postage), or individually.
- See the 70 Broadsheets (1981-2011) as well as the Books, Cards, Posters and Ephemera.
Lectures/Articles by Dr Patrick Eyres: radio, youtube, websites
In Memoriam
Grahame Jones, 1952-2020, Ian Gardner, 1944-2019, Chris Broughton, 1949-2015.
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