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It’s Fine Press Friday!

This week we present The Paper Makers Craft with verse by Oliver Bayldon and illustrations by Rigby Graham, printed in an edition of 400 copies in 1965 by Will Carter at Cambridge for the Twelve by Eight Press. Our copy is signed by John Mason, who was a papermaker and proprietor of the Twelve by Eight Mill in Leicester. Mason writes in the colophon:

“We produced this book because Oliver Bayldon chanced one day to visit my small paper mill, and watched entranced the transmutation of growing things into sheets of textured paper. He came again bearing sacks of stalks, roots and leaves, and stayed himself to turn them into paper. One day he brought these verses, his own free translation from a 17th century Latin poem Papyrus by Father Imberdis S. J. of Ambert, the papermaking district of the Auvergne in France. Will Carter agreed to print it for us.

Most of the white paper used for the text is from Millbourn at Tuckenhay in Devon. The small amount of thinner white was made at Wookey Hole in Somerset. Jack Green produced the grey green sheets at his Hayle Mill in Kent. The rest of the coloured paper is from my Twelve by Eight Private Mill in Leicester.”

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–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Assistant

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January 11, 1898 - June 14, 1991

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