TWELVE BY EIGHT PRESS. GRAHAM, Rigby. BAYLDON, Oliver. ~ The Paper Makers Craft.
Leicester
Printed by Will Carter at Cambridge for the Twelve by Eight Press
1965
One of “less than 400 copies”, this no. 287, signed by the printer John Mason in Leicester. 8 illustrations by Rigby Graham printed in different colours on different papers. Tall thin 4to., original full cream paper covered boards, 12x8 device in gilt on upper cover, an extremely good, bright and fresh copy in the scarce original white thick card wrappers with 12 x 8 device in gilt.
19 page verse about paper making by Oliver Bayldon, being a free translation of Father Imberdis's 17th century poem "Papyrus.”
Various English handmade papers have been used from Tuckenhay, Wookey Hole, Hayle Mill and from Mason at his Twelve by Eight private mill.
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