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(Officina Bodoni) Plato CRITO, A SOCRATIC DIALOGUE BY PLATO
Paris The Pleiad 1926 8vo. marbled paper-covered boards, slipcase. 37+(1) pages.
Schmoller no. 16. Limited to 470 copies printed by the Officina Bodoni at Montagnola, Switzerland. Translated into English by Henry Cary. Crito, a friend of Socrates, went to Socrates in his cell to try to convince him to escape. This essay contains the logic used by Socrates that constrained him to follow the laws of his country and hence to death. Printed in Arrighi-Vicenz italic 16 point on Binda handmade paper. Printed under the supervision of Frederic Warde and the first use of this type face. Well-preserved copy - unusual to find in original slipcase.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 49642

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Ohtake, Shinro ATLANTA 1945+50
(Atlanta, GA) Nexus Press 1996 8vo. printed boards unpaginated
Artist book, psychedelic collage with tipped in black-and-white photos. Miniature book in Japanese attached by string to the book. "Nexus Press is an experimental visual artist press that publishes artist's books - unique, original works of art utilizing the intrinsic characteristics of the book form. Using the offset printing process, Nexus Press provides printing facilities for artists to collaborate with the professional book artists on staff. An international book artist residency program enables Nexus to invite artists on an annual basis to work at the Press. Nexus Press books are distributed world-wide and are represented in many important book arts collections" - from their web site.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 105807

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(Old School Press) Thomas, Martyn, John A. Lane and Anne Rogers HARRY CARTER, TYPOGRAPHER
Bath The Old School Press 2004 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket 120 pages
Printed in an edition limited to 240 copies. The bibliography lists over 200 written works by Harry Carter. He wrote primarily about the history of typography, publishing and associated crafts. He began his career as a lawyer but is remembered as "one of the least-known best-known men in the world of books." The voice of this leading typographer and typefounder is a highly respected in his field. This invaluable resource make his authoritative and concise writings available to a new generation of scholars, with location details for rarer items. This deluxe copy includes a volume of hitherto unpublished writings by Carter, including sections he drafted for the putative second volume of his history of Oxford University Press. Includes 11 tipped-in photographs of Carter, a sample of the original Curwen paper that he designed, a self-portrait when aged 13, a triple wood-engraving portrait of him by George Buday and a setting using his 'Emerald' Bible typeface. Dust jacket made of green Huhnemühle Bugra Bütten carrying a line-drawing portrait of Carter by John Watts. To be publisged Spring 2005.
Price: $ 165.00 other currencies Order nr. 78577

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(Old Stile Press) Barnfield, Richard RICHARD BARNFIELD'S SONNETS.
(Llandogo, Monmouthshire, UK The Old Stile Press 2001) oblong 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards in cloth slipcase (46) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 200 numbered copies by Nicolas McDowall at The Old Stile Press. The Perpetua types were generated by computer and polymer blocks were used throughout to print the book by letterpress on 300gsm Somerset Printmaking paper, and bound at The Fine Bindery. All the images in this book and those used in its binding are by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, and signed by him on the last page. These Sonnets by Richard Barnfield (1574-1627) were originally published in 1595--one year later than The Affectionate Shepheard--in a volume entitled Cynthia.
Price: $ 285.00 other currencies Order nr. 64817

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(Old Stile Press) Britten, Benjamin A CHRISTMAS SEQUENCE.
Chosen by Benjamin Britten from the Chester Mystery Cycle. Introduction by Dr. Andrew Plant. Images by Angela Lemaire. (Llandogo) Old Stile Press (2008) folio quarter leather, paper-covered boards, slipcase with large paper label on front not paginated
Limited to 205 copies, this being one of the main edition of 195 numbered and signed by the artist. This work is taken from the second draft of the libretto for Britten's Christmas Sequence, left unfinished by his death in 1976. Angela Lemaire has cut magnificent woodblocks which capture a splendid sense of the medieval play, its presentation by contemporary children and a mystical rendering of the events surrounding the birth of Jesus. The scenes included involve the Salutation, which introduces Gabriel, Mary and Joseph, Elizabeth and midwives who arrive for the birth; The Shepherds; the Magi; Herod and the Innocents and the knights who carry out the orders to kill. The language is wonderfully down to earth -- designed to entertain in the market places of medieval Chester and the surrounding towns. The woodcuts dance through every page, 76 blocks were cut and printed in midnight black (which is slightly blue) weaving between the blocks of text, printed in seville black (slightly orange). The binding was inspired by the colours of medieval stained glass, green images on blue for the covers with a black leather spine as though leading on the window. A deep red cloth on the slipcase surrounds a large label printed on golden yellow paper.
The book was designed by Nicolas McDowall, printed on Vélin Arches paper, the type is Truesdell and Lemaire's woodcut images were all printed from the wood. A gorgeous new production.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 100253

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(Old Stile Press) Brothers Grimm. FAITHFUL JOHN.
(Llandogo, Monmouthshire, Great Britain) The Old Stile Press (1998) large 8vo. cloth, portfolio, slipcase 34, (4) pages, and 15 artist proofs in a portfolio
The Special Edition of twenty-six lettered copies which have, contained in a portfolio, signed proofs of each of the wood engravings, printed by the artist on Japanese paper (Harrop, 118-19). Designed and printed by Nicolas McDowall on 175gsm Zerkall mouldmade paper, from a special making, on a FAG Control 900 press. The text was set in Centaur, computer generated, and was printed from polymer blocks, as were the second-colour decorations. Maroon cloth spine with gilt spine titling and bright blue paper sides overprinted in gold to produce images derived from the frontispiece. Plum coloured Bugra Butten endpapers, head tinted grey, fore-edge and tail uncut. Both volumes in a maroon cloth slipcase with recessed image printed black on white. The books were bound by The Fine Bindery. The frontispiece and fifteen wood engravings, as well as all images on the book, are by Harry Brockway and the wood engravings were printed from the wood. Signed by the artist on the colophon.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 64850

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(Old Stile Press) Butler, S.J. THE SWIMMER.
Monmouthshire, UK The Old Stile Press 2012 4to decorated paper covered boards (33) pages
One of 100 numbered and signed copies by the author and artist. The Swimmer tells the story of a writer working in her room overlooking a river during a long, hot summer. Overcoming her initial fear of the river with its power and strength to overwhelm a swimmer, she steps into the water and into an unexplored realm of emotion. Words and pictures swim together in the cooling water past tree-lined banks, under a bridge and around curving bends. Later, a richly inventive photographer reads the story and is inspired to create a suite of images to accompany it, employing both ancient and modern photographic techniques. At this point the book designer/printer feels that the storys sense of flow and the photographers images, which float as if in the water alongside the swimmer, could happily be brought together in a book where type has been chosen for slow contemplative reading and the cover design places the whole in the heart of nature.

The story curls across the page slowing the reader to the pace of the swimmer. Emotions crowd in as initial fear moves to exhilaration, apprehension turns to pleasure. S.J. Butler's words and Steffi Puschs pictures together create an atmosphere in which the reader too can share the emotion of the story. They each write a preface to introduce their approach to storytelling and its presentation through photography.

The Swimmer first appeared in The Warwick Review and was then selected for The Best British Short Stories 2011 published by Salt. This is its first publication together with Steffi Puschs photographs. Photographs by Steffi Pusch.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 109794

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(Old Stile Press) Hardy, Thomas GREEN BLADES FROM HER MOUND
Poems, from Poems of 1912-13 (Llandogo) Old Stile Press (2007) square folio wrap-around image on paper over cloth boards, folding cloth slipcase not paginated
One of 200 bound thus as the main edition. Signed by Mark Cazalet who chose the poems and created the images. Thomas Hardy's wife Emma died in November 1912, in the attic room of their house where she had lived estranged from him. Their marriage had hardened into an empty shell and Hardy had long been in love with Florence Dugdale, whom he married the following year.
However, on reading Emma's secret memoirs detailing his cruelty and the breakdown of their marriage, Hardy was hit by an avalanche of grief. He returned to the north Cornish coast of their courtship and spent the rest of 1912 and 1913 producing his most lyrical and abiding collection of poetry.
Mark Cazalet has created images to act as visual equivalents for the extraordinary insights Hardy found in the depths of his experience, rather than attempting his topography or historical period. He arranged the sequence to suggest his gradual reconciliation to guilt and grief, resolving into a dawning sense of acceptance. It was a long and painstaking task to cut wood and linoleum for the twenty-two large images. Each page opening involves three colours on characterful Italian white paper, and the inks were specially mixed by Canfield Colours from natural pigments.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 97589

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(Old Stile Press) JOURNEY OF THOMAS THE RHYMER.
Llandogo, Monmouthshire, England The Old Stile Press (2000) large 8vo. printed paper-covered boards, cloth slipcase with printed pictorial label. 38, (4) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 220 numbered and signed copies. Finely illustrated with original wood engravings by Angela Lemaire. The title page and the colophon page are attractively printed in two colors.
Price: $ 155.00 other currencies Order nr. 61959

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(Old Stile Press) Verstegan, Richard PYED PYPER, A PASSAGE EXTRACTED FROM A RESTITUTION OF DECAYED INTELLIGENCE IN ANTIQUITIES, BY THE STUDIE & TRAUAILE OF RICHARD VERSTEGAN.
(Llandogo, UK) The Old Stile Press 2002 4to. full limp calf, blindtooled with rosettes and an image on front cover not paginated, but (24) pages
Designed and printed by Nicolas McDowall in an edition limited to 175 copies, each numbered and signed by the artist. The text was set in Hiroshige Book type and was printed from polymer plates on Fabriano Ingres paper, with binding by The Fine Bindery. Hiroshige was designed in 1986 by Cynthia Hollandsworth of AlphaOmega Typography; it was originally commissioned for a book of woodblock prints by the 19th-century Japanese artist Ando Hiroshige, whose work influenced many Impressionist artists. Illustrated with linocuts and wood engravings by Angela Lemaire, printed from the original blocks in a variety of ink colors. The text (London, John Norton, 1634) is the earliest known version in English of the extraordinary tale of the children of Hamelin. In her images for this book, Angela Lemaire uses rich color and the differing textures of wood and linocut, shown in the swirl of the river moving through the landscape, in the walls around a medieval town, and the dancing line of children disappearing into the hillside.
Price: $ 315.00 other currencies Order nr. 73324

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(Overbrook Press) Prévost, L'Abbé HISTOIRE DU CHEVALIER DES GRIEUX ET DE MANON LESCAUT.
Illustrations dessinées et imprimées par T.M. Cleland. Stamford, CT Overbrook Press 1958 small 4to. full brown calf, five raised bands, red leather spine label, slipcase. (vi), 204, (4) pages.
Limited to 200 copies (Cahoon p.82; A Century for the Century 58). Printed by hand in Caslon Old Face on Hammer and Anvil paper. The illustrations and the decorations were printed in color using a silk screen process. Loosely inserted is the four page "A Note on the Manner of its Design and Printing." Spine faded with some cracking along hinges.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 107198

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(Palaemon Press) Dickey, James VÄRMLAND: POEMS BASED ON POEMS.
(Winston-Salem) Palaemon Press Limited (1982) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket, paper cover label. 12, (4) pages
Limited edition of 150, lettered "A" with the author's signature. Dedicated to Robert Penn Warren. Original poetry by Dickey, based on works of French poets Frénaud, Becker, Bouhéret and du Bouchet. The first poem is descriptive of the Swedish province of Värmland, hence the title. Palaemon Press was owned by Stuart Wright, faculty member of the School of Education, Wake Forest University (www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/wrights.shtml).
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 109258

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One of 75 Copies

(Palaemon Press) FOR ROBERT PENN WARREN: 24.IV.80.
(Winston-Salem, NC Palaemon Press) 1980 folio cloth, paper cover label. Text and broadsides loosely inserted in portolio in a cloth-backed marbled paper covered slipcase with paper spine label.
Limited to 75 numbered sets, of which 55 are for sale. Loosely inserted in the portfolio are: four page folder entitled, "RPW by Ann Carter Pollard," which contains a woodcut portrait of Warren signed and numbered by Pollard; ten poetry broadsides by A.R. Ammons, Fred Chappell, James Dickey, Richard Eberhart, George P. Garrett, John Hollander, Williams Meredith, Reynolds Price, Rosanna Warren, and Richard Wilbur (each broadside is numbered and signed by the poet); colophon broadside. Fading along spine.
Price: $ 750.00 other currencies Order nr. 108930

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(Palaemon Press) FOR ROBERT PENN WARREN: 24.IV.80.
(Winston-Salem, NC Palaemon Press) 1980 folio cloth, paper cover label. Text and broadsides loosely inserted in portolio in a cloth-backed marbled paper covered slipcase with paper spine label.
Limited to 75 numbered sets, of which 55 are for sale. This copy bears the following presentation from the publisher "Many, many thanks, Richard, for your very special contribution - Stuart. 24. April. 80." The two contributing Richard's were Richard Eberhart and Richard Wilbur. Loosely inserted in the portfolio are: four page folder entitled, "RPW by Ann Carter Pollard," which contains a woodcut portrait of Warren signed and numbered by Pollard; ten poetry broadsides by A.R. Ammons, Fred Chappell, James Dickey, Richard Eberhart, George P. Garrett, John Hollander, Williams Meredith, Reynolds Price, Rosanna Warren, and Richard Wilbur (each broadside is numbered and signed by the poet); colophon broadside. Fading along spine.
Price: $ 850.00 other currencies Order nr. 105991

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(Palaemon Press) Goyen, William WONDERFUL PLANT.
(Winston-Salem) Palaemon Press Limited (1980) 8vo. cloth, marbled boards (vi), 51, (3) pages
Limited, numbered edition of 160. 100, numbered 1-100, for public sale; 60, numbered i-lx, for distribution. Marbled boards made by Daniel Guyot of Seattle specifically for this volume. This copy is No. 1. Signed by the author on the colophon page. Presentation by the author to the publisher. Palaemon Press was owned by Stuart Wright, faculty member of the School of Education Wake Forest University. Dedicated to "Doris" and signed by actress Doris Roberts on dedication page. William Goyen was an American novelist, short story writer and playwright from east Texas. Roberts starred in his plays. Note from the author to the publisher laid in, along with copy of newspaper clipping.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 109275

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(Palaemon Press) Taylor, Peter THE EARLY GUEST (A SORT OF STORY, A SORT OF PLAY, A SORT OF DREAM).
(Winston-Salem) Palaemon Press Limited (1982) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket, label on front dust jacket 28, (2) pages
Limited, numbered edition of 140, of which 100 were for sale. This copy is No. 1. Signed by the author on the colophon page. Palaemon Press was owned by Stuart Wright, faculty member of the School of Education at Wake Forest University. It published books, pamphlets and broadsides by southern US authors. A one-act play.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 109265

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(Palaemon Press) Wilbur, Richard PEDESTRIAN FLIGHT, TWENTY-ONE CLERIHEWS FOR THE TELEPHONE.
(Winston-Salem) Palaemon Press Limited (1981) 8vo. quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards unpaginaged
Limited edition of 181. 110, numbered 1-110, for public sale. 26 copies designated for distribution by Stuart Wright, five bound in quarter leather boards designated for friends of the press. 40 copies, numbered i-xl, for distribution by the poet and publisher. This copy is one of the five bound copies, numbered with a Roman numeral. signed by the author. Introductory note to the reader by Stuart Wright, the owner/publisher of Palaemon Press, which published books, pamphlets and broadsides by southern US authors (www.library.vanderbilt.speccol/wrights.shtml). Clarihew poetry, according to the note, "was invented by Edmund Charihew Bently, author of Trent's Last Case, and is characterized by its comically flat and prosaic movement." Black and white illustrations by Wilbur. Errata sheet laid in.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 109256

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(Palemon Press) Crews, Harry THE ENTHUSIAST.
N.P. Palemon Press Limited (1981) 8vo. marble paper covered boards, paper cover and spine labels. (iv), 31+(1) pages
Limited to 200 numbered and signed copies; this is one of the 50 lettered copies reserved for the author and publisher. First appearance of "The Enthusiast." Some wear to the boards, small chip to the paper at the head of the spine on the rear board. Minor wear to the corners.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 105804

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Palivec, Josef and Jan Soucek NASLOUCHÁNÍ.
(Praha) Edice Sladké jádro srdce (1992) 4to. quarter leather with marbled paper covered boards in a slipcase with matching marbled paper. 28, (2) pages.
Limited to only 100 numbered copies. The full color illustrations are each signed by the artist in pencil. A stunning production.
Price: $ 375.00 other currencies Order nr. 102976

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One of 35 Copies

(Papermaking) Bidwell, John (editor) EARLY AMERICAN PAPERMAKING: TWO TREATISES ON MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUES REPRINTED FROM JAMES CUTBUSH'S AMERICAN ARTIST'S MANUAL (1814).
New Castle Oak Knoll Books 1990 8vo. cloth, printed paper over boards, leather spine label, in a larger slipcase with a separate portfolio containing a piece of Robeson handmade paper. 90, (2) pages.
First edition, limited to 180 copies of which this is one of the 35 special copies bound thus and containing a folded piece of original Robeson handmade paper with watermark referred to in the text as "exhibiting the typical characteristics of handmade stock produced in the middle or late 1830s, when many American mills had already adopted mass production methods." The watermark and countermark in this paper are also reproduced as illustrations.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 31790

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(Papermaking) Bramlage, Puck and Kathy Crump (compilers) BOOKART.
N.P. n.p. 1992 small oblong 8vo. stiff paper Japanese stab wrappers in a linen-covered, cord-tied case not paginated, but approximately 100 pages
Printed in an edition limited to 25 numbered copies. Typeset in Palatino, Laserject printed on Becket Cambric. Cover paper: Abaca and Cotton ray dyed with Pineapple Sage Plants, by Kathy Crump. Lettering by Puck Bramlage. Catalogue for an exhibition of paper-making in the Basel University Library, and museums in Germany and The Netherlands. Samples and photographs of seventeen artists, with descriptions of their work on facing pages. "As one looks at these artists' works, it is evident that paper is an exciting and challenging medium and that paper as medium is flourishing."
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 71087

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(Papermaking) Garrett, Florence Rome THE MILL AND US.
Bridgewater, CT The Flume Press (1978) 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. 101+(1) pages.
First edition. One of 450 copies printed by this private press of which this is one of 25 copies to be in a special binding and contains a specimen of paper made at the mill. A charming essay about the joys and pitfalls of starting a papermaking mill. The book is illustrated by Elmer Garrett. Presentation on the half-title. Loosely inserted is a prospectus to the book, a signed poem by Garrett, a large newspaper clipping giving us history of the mill and two newspaper clippings listing the sale price of the mill.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 28460

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(Papermaking) HANDMADE PAPER IN NEPAL TRADITION AND CHANGE
(Washington D.C.) Hand Papermaking 1998 4to. booklet handsewn in stiff paper wrapper, loose sheets each in a protective folder, all housed in a custom-made clamshell box which is in the original cardboard box (iv), 42+(2) pages
Limited to an edition of 150 copies. This is the third portfolio in the ongoing series of handmade papers. This portfolio presents documentation of an ancient papermaking tradition in transition. There are eighteen specimens of papers collected by Dorothy Field between 1984 and 1996 on her trips to Nepal. The booklet has Ms. Field's essays and extensive sample descriptions, glossary and bibliography. Prospectus laid in.
Price: $ 495.00 other currencies Order nr. 93005

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(Papermaking) Hunter, Dard THE LIFE WORK OF DARD HUNTER, A PROGRESSIVE ILLUSTRATED ASSEMBLAGE OF HIS WORKS AS ARTIST, CRAFTSMAN, AUTHOR, PAPERMAKER, AND PRINTER.
2 volumes. Chillicothe Mountain House Press 1981, 1983 folio full native dyed red Niger sewed on cords, cloth box, leather spine label, both volumes inserted in cloth-covered clam-shell cases with leather spine labels. (viii),198; (viii),130 pages.
Limited to 150 numbered and signed copies; this is one of the 50 special copies to be bound in full leather and containing extra specimens bound in. Printed on dark cream handmade paper produced by Hodgkinson Mill in Wookey Hole on Dard Hunter's personally watermarked laid moulds. The first volume covers Hunter's early days as a book designer and designer of stain glass windows, pottery, furniture, and his work for the Roycrofters. This volume contains 194 colored and 65 black and white tipped-in illustrations, many of which have been printed to resemble the original. Reproduced in this volume are many of the designs that Hunter produced for the bindings of the Roycroft books and catalogues and also the cover designs for other advertising publications. Volume II describes Hunter's activities as a papermaker and paper historian and contains a bibliography of Hunter's writing. Accompanied by tipped-in specimens of paper, tipped-in facsimiles of title pages and other work. Dard Hunter Jr. has written a two-page note regarding the production of this book, a massive job requiring 12 years. The book was printed by hand on dampened paper printed on Washington hand presses. The paper specimens were made using Dard Hunter's original beater which had to be reconstructed for this project. This surely is one of the landmark books produced in the book-arts field in the 20th century both from a textual and production standpoint.
Price: $ 12,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 34639

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(Papermaking) WATERMARKS IN HANDMADE PAPER: MODERN AND HISTORIC
(Washington D.C.) Hand Papermaking 2001 4to. booklet handsewn in stiff paper wrapper, loose sheet each in a protective folder, all housed in a custom-made clamshell box which is in the original cardboard box (iv), 42+(2) pages
Limited to an edition of 150 copies. This is the fifth portfolio in the ongoing series of portfolios of handmade papers. The juried collection features seventeen watermarked sheets of handmade paper using many techniques. Five were formed on historic moulds and twelve were produced and designed especially for this collection. The booklet has a commission essay by Helen Hiebert and statements from each artist. Prospectus laid-in.
Price: $ 495.00 other currencies Order nr. 93004

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