Printing since 1986 — now part of Gee Brothers
The Letter Press of Cirencester
The Cotswold printer of wedding invitations, correspondence cards and personal stationery is now printed by Gee Brothers of London. Same layouts, same typefaces, same presses.
What happened to The Letter Press
The Letter Press of Cirencester is now part of Gee Brothers
If you are looking for The Letter Press of Cirencester — the printers at letterpress.co.uk, on Cripps Road in Cirencester, who printed your wedding invitations, correspondence cards, writing paper or orders of service — you are in the right place.
The Letter Press was founded in 1986 by Anthony Eyre and Kate Rous, and spent three decades at the top of the personal and wedding stationery market: classic house layouts, letterpress, litho and die-stamping in house, and engraving, gilding, foil blocking and thermography alongside. In 2017 The Letter Press joined Gee Brothers of London, and the Cirencester workshop has since closed. The work carried on — it simply moved to our own workshop in Battersea, where it is printed today.
Gee Brothers has been printing since 1958 and works exactly the way The Letter Press did: traditional processes, properly made paper and card, and a named person who looks after your job from proof to delivery. If The Letter Press printed for you before, we can pick up where they left off.
For existing Letter Press customers
Re-ordering work The Letter Press printed for you
Most people who find this page want the same thing again — another hundred correspondence cards, more writing paper, invitations to match the save the dates. Tell us what you had and we will match it.
Tell us what you had
Send us the name the order was placed under, roughly when it was printed, and a photograph of the card or paper itself. That is normally enough for us to identify the job, the typeface and the layout.
Request a re-order
The same layouts and typefaces
The Letter Press house layouts — headers, footers, address blocks, monograms and ciphers — are set in the same traditional typefaces. If you would rather change the address or the ink colour and keep everything else, that is a simple thing to do.
See our typefaces
The same processes and papers
Letterpress, die-stamping, engraving, thermography and foil blocking, on wove or laid stock in the sizes you know — AQ, half king, king and DL — with gummed diamond flap envelopes to match.
How each finish is madeThe ranges, still in print
Everything The Letter Press printed, we print
Wedding and social stationery, personal stationery and Christmas cards — the full jobbing range, printed in Battersea.
Order online
Letter Press of Cirencester correspondence cards
The Letter Press correspondence card is still on the site, built the way it always was. Choose wove (smooth) or laid (textured) card, flat or raised thermographic printing, your typeface, your ink colour and your size — with or without a rule below the address. Matching gummed diamond flap envelopes can be added to the order.
- 152 × 106mm — gummed diamond flap envelopes
- 178 × 114mm — half king, gummed diamond flap envelopes
- DL, 210 × 99mm — peel and seal envelopes
For anything the builder does not cover — a crest, a cipher, a die you had cut, an unusual size — send us an enquiry and we will quote it properly.
Letter Press customers ask
Frequently asked questions
The Letter Press of Cirencester joined Gee Brothers of London in 2017, and the Cirencester workshop has since closed. The ranges are still printed — they are now produced at the Gee Brothers workshop in Battersea, London, using the same traditional processes.
Yes. Send us the name the original order was placed under, roughly when it was printed, and a photograph of the card or paper. We will match the layout, typeface, ink colour, card and size, and quote you for a repeat run. Use the Request a re-order button on this page.
No. The Letter Press of Cirencester no longer trades under its own name or website. Gee Brothers, at geebrothers.co.uk, is where its customers are now looked after.
Yes — letterpress, die-stamping, engraving, thermography and foil blocking are all still offered. Letterpress gives a debossed impression pressed into the sheet; die-stamping raises the ink off it. You can compare each finish on our print finishes page, or ask us for a sample.
Yes. AQ (152 × 106mm), PQ / half king (178 × 114mm) and DL (210 × 99mm) are all still stocked, in wove and laid, with gummed diamond flap envelopes on the AQ and half king sizes and peel and seal on DL.
Yes. Engagement announcements, save the dates, wedding and evening invitations, reply cards, orders of service, menus, place cards and thank you cards — the whole service, in classic and contemporary layouts. See our wedding invitations or ask for a sample pack.
Gee Brothers prints in Battersea, south-west London. We are not a shop, but we are very happy to talk a job through by telephone or email, and to send you samples in the post before you commit. Get in touch.
Use Request an estimate on this page for new work, or Request a re-order for something we have printed before. Tell us the quantity, the size, the process and the paper if you know them — and if you do not, describe what you want and we will advise.
Reviews
What our customers say...
My parents used Gee Brothers in 1991 for their wedding invitations and so they recommended them to us. Wonderful, traditional craftsmanship and service.
Rob Akehurst — 24 May 2023
Thank you to Kerala at Gee Brothers who was extremely helpful in helping facilitate our stationery. A first-class experience from start to finish.
Claudia Leighton — 19 May 2023
Lucy has been terribly helpful putting in a rush order for us!
Many thanks
Shawna B — 11 December 2023
What a company! Could not recommend their services more!
Thank you Gee bros!
Matthew Gorton — 11 February 2024
WE're delighted to assist you
Whether it is a repeat of something printed in Cirencester years ago or a wedding you are only starting to plan, tell us what you need — use the buttons below, or contact the team directly. We will reply by email with a proper estimate, and samples if they would help.