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Fine Binding. Condition: Mint. Dust Jacket Condition: MINT. First Edition. THE DIARIES OF JAMES SIMMONS Paper Maker of Haslemere 1831 - 1868. Selected and Introduced with Annotations by Alan Crocker & Martin Kane. The Tabard Private Press, Oxshott. 1990 Limited Edition 194/210 ISBN 1869924045 190pp Illustrated Hardback. From 1831 until shortly before his death at the age of 84 in 1868, James Simmons, master paper maker in the small market town of Haslemere in Surrey, kept a diary. Thirty eight booklets in which the entries were written have recently been made available and provide a unique and fascinating account of the family and business affairs of a struggling country paper maker in the mid nineteenth century. This limited edition is one of 180 copies bound in Loom State oatmeal coloured fabric. The complete print run was of 30 copies quarter bound in leather plus 180 copies of the open edition which were numbered 31 - 210 This copy is hand numbered 54. There are 18 tipped in illustrations and bound in at the back are two examples of paper made in 1989 on a Simmons mould bearing the post horn watermark and the countermark J Simmons 1812. This copy is in pristine condition and has been signed by Alan Crocker and Mrtin Kane on the title page. Laid in is the original prospectus for this important book. Ref CC 2 Size: 190pp. Signed by Both Editors.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Number 184 of less than 400 copies, signed by John Mason (with the date January 1969), printed in black (the title-page in black and red; the frontispiece in black and turquoise green; the other illustrations in chestnut brown, blue, dark green or brown) in Monotype Bembo on various hand-made papers (Millbourn, Wookey Hole, Barcham Green and Twelve by Eight). Side-stitched in one section, and bound in semi-limp Linson Vellum, blocked in gold on the spine and front cover. Endpapers made from grasses taken from the park at Blenheim Palace. Bookplate. Acetate dust-jacket and gilt-stamped chemise. A fine copy A free translaton of the seventeenth-century Latin poem `Papyrus' by Father Imberdis S.J. Signed by Author(s).