The Paper Maker's Craft. Illustrations by Rigby Graham.

(Twelve by Eight Press) Bayldon (Oliver).

Published by Small folio, pp.x,19 + 6 illustrations, 30cm, Printed by Will Carter at Cambridge for the Twelve by Eight Press, Leicester, 1965.

About this Item

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.

Seller Inventory # 2084

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Paper Maker's Craft. Illustrations by Rigby Graham.
• Publisher: Small folio, pp.x,19 + 6 illustrations, 30cm, Printed by Will Carter at Cambridge for the Twelve by Eight Press, Leicester, 1965.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 0.75 kilograms
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fine Press
  • Paper