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CATALOGUE OF THE FIRST (TO FOURTH) PORTION OF THE BECKFORD LIBRARY REMOVED FROM HAMILTON PALACE. With CATALOGUE OF THE HAMILTON LIBRARY.
5 volumes bound in 1.
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- London : Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge 1882, 1882, 1882, 1883, 1883, 1884
- thick tall 8vo.
- half vellum with green pebbled cloth, top edge gilt.
- (vi), 237; vi, 195; viii,196; vi, 78; viii,150 pages
- Order Nr. 106120
- Price: $ 800.00
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Complete set of this massive sale. William Beckford (1760-1844) was a novelist and art and book collector who rivaled the most important collectors of his day. The collection was kept intact by the family and sold many years after his death. The first four parts are completely priced in pen in the margin with the buyer's name written in pen in the opposite margin. Some soiling of covers with a crack along the bottom of the front hinge. Library bookplate is the only library marking.
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THE HISTORY OF PAPERMAKING IN THE PHILIPPINES.
by Thomas, Peter
This book, limited to 75 copies, was designed, handset, letterpress printed and hand bound by Peter and Donna Thomas using paper that they made and featuring eleven samples of paper handmade by Filipinos from indigenous plants. The text, written by Peter, based on nearly twenty years of research, offers the first comprehensive history of the subject. It includes discussions of Philippine precursors to paper (including wooden scrolls and bark cloth), a survey of the first printed books made in the Philippines and the paper they were printed on, descriptions of a number of indigenous papermaking fibers (especially abaca), and a chronological history of both commercial and hand papermaking in the Philippines up to the year 2000. Donna cut the block print illustrations. The Thomases printed the book in three colors on a Vandercrook Universal One press, using 18 point Goudy Modern (and Neuland types for titles). Notes and appendices were set monotype by Rich Hopkins using Pat Taylor's unique English monotype mats. The binding structure was developed by Peter and Donna to accomodate the special requirements of this book: the short and long pages create space for the paper samples, which are sewn in place so that they can move with changes in humidity. Each book is quarter bound with a red leather spine and boards covered with T'nalak (a Philippine ikat dyed fabric, made with spun abaca fiber, woven on a backstrap loom) and is housed in a red cloth-covered slipcase with the title and an inscription on the front.
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