Petersburg Press is a publisher of limited edition prints and “livres d’artiste” books and has worked with many of the most significant European and American Post War and Pop artists of their generation. Founded by Paul Cornwall-Jones in London in 1968 Petersburg Press opened additional premises in New York in 1972. The Press collaborated with American artists Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Rene Ricard, Frank Stella and Michele Zalopany; and British and European artists Marcel Broodthaers, Patrick Caulfield, Francesco Clemente, Marcel Duchamp, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Allen Jones, and Dieter Roth. Petersburg Press has organized numerous exhibitions worldwide and published a wide range of books and posters. Premises are now in New York City.
Paul Cornwall-Jones founded his first publishing business Editions Alecto (EA) in 1961 as a post-graduate at the architectural schools at Cambridge University, England.
A brief synopsis of publications is set out below.
Selected Publications
1961: John Piper Westminster School (EA)
1963: David Hockney A Rake's Progress (EA)
1964: Allen Jones Concerning Marriages(EA)
1965: Richard Hamilton Interior, My Marilyn (EA), Eduardo Paolozzi As in When (EA)
1966: William Scott Odéon Suite (EA), Claes Oldenburg London Knees (EA), Richard Smith Sphinx (EA), Alan Davie Zurich Improvisations (EA)
1967: Jean Dubuffet Banque de L’Hourloupe (EA), Eduardo Paolozzi Moonstrips Empire News (EA)
1968: Marcel Duchamp The Oculist Witnesses and Sieves (with Hamilton), Jim Dine The Picture of Dorian Gray
1969: David Hockney Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Jim Dine/Lee Friedlander Photographs & Etchings
1970: Dieter Roth Six Piccadillies
1971: Richard Hamilton I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas, Claes Oldenburg Notes in Hand
1972: Richard Hamilton Release, Frank Stella Multicolored Squares
1973: Patrick Caulfield Some Poems of Jules Laforgue, Dieter Roth Containers, Eine Muse, Frank Stella Jasper’s Dilemma, Les Indes Galantes, Jim Dine Five Paintbrushes
1974: Marcel Broodthaers Un Voyage en Mer du Nord, James Rosenquist F-111, Jim Dine The Plant Becomes a Fan (sculpture)
1976: Jasper Johns/Samuel Beckett Foirades/Fizzles, David Hockney The Blue Guitar
1979: Howard Hodgkin In the Museum of Modern Art
1980: Frank Stella Polar Co-ordinates
1982: Roy Lichtenstein Seven Apple Woodcuts, Frank Stella Shards, Jasper Johns Untitled (Red, Yellow, Blue)
1983: David Hockney photocollages
1985: Howard Hodgkin David's Pool
1986: Francesco Clemente The Departure of the Argonaut
1988: Michele Zalopany pastels, monotypes, prints
1990: Rene Ricard paintings, drawings, prints
