The paper makers craft : verse by Oliver Bayldon ; illustrations by Rigby Graham.

Mason, J. ; Bayldon, O. ; Graham, R. (illustrator) ; Twelve by Eight Press.

Published by Twelve by Eight Press, Leicester, first edition, 1965, 1965

About this Item

Limited edition of "less than four hundred copies". Gilt-stamped Linson boards, 30 cm 19 pp, 9 plates, colour ills. Printed by Will Carter at Cambridge for the Twelve by Eight Press. From John Mason's Introduction: "We produced this book because Oliver Bayldon chanced one day to visit my small paper mill, and watched entranced the transmutation of growing things into sheets of textured paper. He came again bearing sacks of stalks, roots and leaves, and stayed himself to turn them into paper. One day he brought these verses, his own free translation from a 17th century Latin poem Papyrus by Father Imberdis S.J. of Ambert, the papermaking district of the Auvergne in France. Will Carter agreed to print it for us. Most of the white paper used for the text is from Millbourn at Tuckenhay in Devon. The small amount of thinner white was made at Wookey Hole in Somerset, Jack Green produced the grey green sheets at his Hayle Mill in Kent. The rest of the coloured paper is from my Twelve by Eight Private Mill in Leicester. Alas, no longer is paper made by hand anywhere else in England. Of this edition there are less than four hundred copies.". Copy No. 78, numbered and signed by John Mason on the limitation page. Small ex-libris of G. de Jong on front pastedown endpaper, boards a little darkened, otherwise Very Good. With four prospectuses for the book (1 printed on each of the four papers used in the book) laid in.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The paper makers craft : verse by Oliver Bayldon ; illustrations by Rigby Graham.
• Publisher: Twelve by Eight Press, Leicester, first edition, 1965
• Publication Date: 1965
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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