Rena Gardiner's books at the Workshop Press in Blandford Forum in Dorset are magnificent productions providing well researched and drafted texts with lavish lithographic images. Instead of finicky details, photographs or fashionable smears, the images (many of Dorset archaelogy and architecture) are painterly and radical without losing meaning and significance.
 
Designed, drawn, printed and published by Rena Gardiner at the Workshop Press, The Thatch Cottage, Tarrant Monkton, Blandford Forum, Dorset.... Printed on Precision Offset paper and Ivorex boardon a Gestelith 201 Press. Type hand-set in 12 point Gill Sans Serif." Some of the books have been distributed through the National Trust.
 

 
01 DORSET; THE ISLE OF PURBECK The Roman Catholic Church, Lulworth Castle.
 
02 detail of a plate on Corfe Castle ( PURBECK volume)

03 detail of Cover to DORSET; THE EAST WINTERBOURNE VALLEY 1968