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LIGHT ON THE BOOK TRADE, ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF PETER ISAAC.
McKay, Barry, John Hinks & Maureen Bell.
First edition. A festschrift in honor of the late Peter Isaac. This is the sixth volume in the Print Networks Series and examines British provincial book history of the 18th and 19th centuries. There are 18 important essays by leading scholars, journalists and academics. They reveal interesting and little-known aspects of the history of the book. Authors include Caroline Archer, Maureen Bell, Iain Beavan, Margaret Cooper, Diana Dixon, John Feather, John Gavin, R.J. Goulden, David Griffiths, John Hinks, David Hounslow, Philip Henry Jones, Wallace Kirsop, Lucy Lewis, Warren McDougall, Barry McKay, Michael Powell, Linda Reynolds, Brenda J. Scragg, David Stoker and Sue Walker. Out of print.
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> Spectorsky, A.C., THE FUTURE FOR BOOKS IN AMERICA.
> Hinks, John and Matthew Day (editors), FROM COMPOSITORS TO COLLECTORS: ESSAYS ON BOOK-TRADE HISTORY
> Anushkin, A., BO SLAVNOM MESTE VILENSKOM: OCHERKI IZ ISTORII KNIGOPECHATANII (IN A GLORIOUS PLACE: ESSAYS FROM THE HISTORY OF BOOK PUBLISHING).
> Hamilton, Frederick W., A BRIEF HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA.
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THE. RENAISSANCE FAIRE BROADSIDE SERIES
by Thomas, Peter & Donna.
One of 10 copies, of which 8 are for sale. In the 1970s and 80s we worked at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire, an event that recreated an English Elizabethian country market fair. Dressed like Robin Hood and Maid Marion, we taught papermaking and bookbinding from ramshackle booths we built out of recycled lumber and swathed in burlap. As we reenacted the roles of papermaker and printer we made and sold blank books and illustrated broadsides. We would print the broadsides in batches of 10-20 at a time, reprinting them when they were nearly sold out. We stopped participating in the Faire in the early 1990s and tucked the left over broadsides away in a trunk.
Ten of those broadsides have now been collected together in this portfolio. They are accompanied by a broadside we printed this year that acts as a " title page." In addition to the broadsides we have also included a 22 page color photographic history of the Faire. We designed and had this printed in 1987 to celebrate the Faires twentieth birthday, and had set aside 10 copies in the trunk. The broadsides and photo book are housed in a unique "pivoting page" box binding we designed especially for the project. This clamshell box-like structure is made from reclaimed old redwood like we used to build our faire booths. The truly unique features of the binding are the translucent vellum-like paper "pocket pages" that are pinned with wooden dowels into a slotted pivoting page holder, and the use of magnets to hold the broadsides in place.
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