The Swansong NAJ
The NAJ could roll along indefinitely. The penultimate edition is the 56th. So 57 varieties are sufficient. The 57th and swansong edition will be NAJ 83/84 (c.2028) Panegyricks & Pasquinades. This will catalogue and reproduce all 70 of the numbered and anonymous broadsheets that were published between 1981 and 2011 to accompany the NAJs. Patrick Eyres is penning a commentary on each broadsheet and a memoir of the New Arcadian Press. Wendy Frith will discuss memorials in Sheffield parks and gardens, and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, through the lens of family history.
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).
The Wentworths and Finlay Collections
- 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. Since 1981, the New Arcadian Press has published many works by or relating to Finlay. Many are still available, as a set (£380, excluding postage), or individually.
- See the 70 Broadsheets (1981-2011) as well as the Books, Cards, Posters and Ephemera.
The Archive
Lockdown forced me to confront the mountain range of boxes that stored forty years of busy-ness by the New Arcadian Press. They bulged with all the stuff from which I’d created 53 journals, 70 broadsheets and umpteen cards, books, prints and ephemera. After publishing each edition I’d squirrel everything away and briskly move on to the next. Imagine the intoxication of surprising re-discoveries – of manually cut-and-pasted camera-ready artwork from the analogue olden days, of A6 mock-ups for sown-in-section journals, of original drawings (on paper and card, and as scraperboards and lino engravings) and all the letters, yes, letters – both handwritten and typed (on typewriters that left the impression of letter keys in the page). Most of all, I was surprised by the amount of material generated through my friendship with Ian Hamilton Finlay.
Archiving become such a pleasurably overwhelming addiction that, after nineteen months, I had to postpone the NAP’s 40th birthday journal till 2022. Prior to Lockdown, I’d begun to think that it was time to pull up the stumps on the NAJ. So another surprise was that material for a further three new editions sprung out of the boxes:
NAJ 77/78 (2022) Atlantic Flowers , NAJ 81/82 (2025) Virtuous Landscapes and NAJ 83/84 (c.2028) Panegyricks & Pasquinades. In between, by popular request, came NAJ 79/80 (2024) Wentworth Castle, 3rd edn.
Patrick Eyres, November 2021 / June 2023 / February 2026
