Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2023. 7 x 10 inches. dust jacket over cloth-covered boards; sewn. 288 pages. Eight essays on paper and papermaking. Each copy has an inserted sheet of handmade watermarked paper made by Nicholas Yeager. Authors include Sidney Berger, Velma Bolyard, Andrew Davis, Timothy Barrett, Fenella France, Katharine DeLamater, Nicole Donnelly, Aimee Lee, Minah Song, and Nicholas Yeager. Contents: - Sidney E. Berger · The Many Faces of Decorated Paper -..... READ MORE about PAPERMAKER’S TEARS: ESSAYS ON THE ART AND CRAFT OF PAPER, VOL. 2

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Foreword by Sidney E. Berger 92 full-color images
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2023. 10 x 7 in. hardcover, sewn, dust jacket. 224 pages. Foreword by Sidney E. Berger 92 full-color images. When one sees a book covered in a particular paper, the question often arises: Who made that paper? This book helps us recognize certain kinds of marbled-paper decoration created by Edward Webster Morris (1842-1919), an Oxford printer. Morris was adept at the art of marbling, and, as Isaac shows, his..... READ MORE about 'MORRIS MARBLES': OXFORD'S PAPER MARBLER, EDWARD WEBSTER MORRIS (1842-1919

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(Manchester, VT): The Legacy Press, 2023. 10 x 7 in. softcover. 232 pages, 210 images in full color. This book chronicles the beautiful and moving story of Recycling: Washi Tales, a theatrical performance first conceived in 2009 by American theater maker, Elise Thoron, and Japanese paper artist, Ibe Kyoko. Inspired by washi (Japanese handmade paper), the authors set out on an ongoing exploration of its dynamic presence and harmonious spirit in theater. Working with a...... READ MORE about THE WAY OF WASHI TALES

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Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2022. 9 x 11 inches. softcover. 390 pages. is the first critical consideration of the fifty-plus-year career of Laurence Salzmann, whose archive was acquired in 2018 by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Salzmann's long career has touched on an exceptionally broad range of topics, including: cultural anthropology, folk and folklore, race and ethnicity, migration, postCommunism, Latin American studies, Jewish studies, and many more. The book includes more than 230..... READ MORE about LAURENCE SALZMANN: A LIFE WITH OTHERS

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Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2022. large 8vo. pictorial paper covered boards. 352 pages, 424 illustrations. First edition. A fine copy. Printed in full color. The term endbands designates the two bands worked with thread(s) at the head and tail edges of the spine of a book. The techniques with which they are worked and the ways with which they are connected to a bound codex vary greatly over time and geography. The purpose..... READ MORE about ON THE EDGE: ENDBANDS IN THE BOOKBINDING TRADITIONS OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, 2022. 8.5 x 8.5 inches. soft cover. 162 pages. Created in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, this book showcases Arthur Tress's modern photographs and selections from his gift of Japanese illustrated books. About the exhibition: "Displaying a selection of Japanese books from the Arthur Tress collection along with Tress's own photography, this exhibition engages Tress's practices as both artist and collector, juxtaposing the two media to present..... READ MORE about ARTHUR TRESS AND THE JAPANESE ILLUSTRATED BOOK

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2022. 7 x 10 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 360 pages. The founding, growth, organization, and expansion of a major American university library is revealed over three and a half centuries of its history. First edition. The disparate stories of the libraries of the fledgling colleges in the colonies of the Eastern Seaboard, beginning more than one hundred fifty years before the Declaration of Independence, has been recorded occasionally in..... READ MORE about I GIVE THESE BOOKS: THE HISTORY OF YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, 1656-2022

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Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2021. 8vo. paper wrappers. 97 pages. First edition, 2nd printing. Fifty-two illustrations in color. From the preface by Julie Miller: We often speak of how a particular phenomenon has "reached a tipping point" - when knowledge and practice have developed in plain sight and then suddenly explodes on scene as a revolution in our thinking. Gary Frosts career with bookbinding, through his research, practice, and teaching, has been a...... READ MORE about A CRAFTED TYPOLOGY OF THE CODEX BOOK MODELMAKING AS AN APPROACH TO MATERIAL BOOK STUDY

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Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2021. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 532 pages, 370 illustrations. Edited by Francisco H. Trujillo. Theodore C. Petersen wrote Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library between 1929 and 1950, but it remained unpublished until now. The seminal work describes the binding techniques and materials of a collection of early manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum (MLM). The collection consists of ninth- and tenth-century bindings of over fifty manuscripts..... READ MORE about COPTIC BOOKBINDINGS IN THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY

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Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2021. 10 x 7 inches. cloth, sewn, dust jacket. 144 pages. Hardback edition with an additional specimen of type and ornaments, privately printed by Russell Maret loosely inserted. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a great flowering of typographic activity, resulting in a corpus of typographic literature that continues to hold sway over contemporary type design and practices. But are the precepts and motivations of late-Industrial typography..... READ MORE about VISIONARIES & FANATICS: AND OTHER ESSAYS ON TYPE DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY, & THE PRIVATE PRESS

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Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2021. 8vo. paper wrappers. 196 pages. Reams in the Desert is the first book to explore the complete story behind the Wests pioneer attempt at paper production. The unlikely site was a desert valley in northern Utah. Paper had been made commercially in the United States for well over a century by the time that the first paper made west of the Mississippi River emerged from the vat. Complicated..... READ MORE about REAMS IN THE DESERT: PAPERMAKING IN UTAH, 1849-1893

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Number seventeen of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series
Berkeley: CODEX Foundation, 2021. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. wrappers. 24 pages. Number seventeen of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series. Number seventeen of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series. Following Marshall McLuhan's famous quote the medium is the message this article presents the Klingspor Museum in Offenbach/Main as a unique institution representing the genre of the artists book. The Klingspor Museum is more than simply a collection of book related arts because of its foundational idea of type- and..... READ MORE about THE ARTIST'S BOOK: A MESSAGE FROM THE KLINGSPOR MUSEUM

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The Legacy Press, 2021. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 661 pages. Tradition and Individuality came about as the result of an irresistible invitation: to examine and describe the bindings on 100 Greek manuscripts in the University of Michigan Library's rare-book collection, which date from the fourth to the nineteenth century. This book is intended as a companion to the two-volume catalogue of the U-M Greek manuscripts written by Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, both volumes to be published by..... READ MORE about TRADITION AND INDIVIDUALITY: BINDINGS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN GREEK MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

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