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Hand Papermaking
A Book of Suspicions

Item date(s): 1964

Walter (Samuel Haatoum) Hamady


Pages: 80pp
Size: 280mm
Edition: 104 of 200

Sub-type: Private press

Place publication: Mount Horeb, WI
Publisher: The Perishable Press
Catalogue 102

Additional notes:
Description in Basilisk Press Catalogue: "80 pages more or less. 170 copies for sale. Text by Hamady tells all you ever wanted to know about setting up a small hand mill; big linocuts by Jim Lee illustrates every stage. The book is deliciously eccentric, hand set and printed on sheets hand made at Perishable and many other small mills. Lots of colours in papers and inks. Hand bound."

200 copies produced per solophon. 19 prelim sides (including paste down), 42 numbered pages, then 17sides (including rear endpaper pasted down). Printed in black, brown, blue, red and gray. Signed by the author at page 19 under a linocut portrait. Experimental papermaking included after colophon including blind stamping (using string, objects and stencils - including a profile), colouring (on double sheet) and paper with differing colours on each side with pocket (on double sheet). Hand bound in linen with blind stamping on spine.

Ref: GB/10198


   



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