Paper Making By Hand: A Book of Suspicions
- Artist's Book
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11.25 x 11.25 x 0.25 in
(28.58 x 28.58 x 0.64 cm)
- Walter Hamady
Paperback. A variety of contemporary hand made papers: 13 various Shadwells; Roma & Perusia from Miliani in Fabriano; Canterbury from Barcham Green in Maidstone, Kent (all three retain their watermarks); Barlow from HMP in Woodstock, Connecticut; Banana-sisal from Carriage House in Brookline, Massachusetts; Yale (in wove and laid surfaces) from Twinrocker in Brookston, Indiana. Bound by Bill Anthony & Associates: tan Irish linen over boards, fine. Page size: 11 x 7-1/2 inches; 56 pages surfaces in 7 signatures, 26 pages of text. Illustrated with 3 illustrations from Diderot and 12 linoleum cuts by Jim Lee especially for this text. There are 2 title pages - one by Walter Hamady and one penned by Hermann Zapf who also designed the typeface, Palatino, used for this text. The type was hand set and printed by Walter Hamady, 50 of the pages printed in 88 press runs, in 5 basic colors (blacks, reds, blues, browns and grays) on 19 different colors of paper. Certainly, this is a key book on papermaking and one of the most beautiful books from Walter Hamady.
Object dimensions: [42]: ill., samples ; 11 1/4" X 7 1/2"
- Created: 1982
- Inventory Number: 1990.02.05
- Collections: Modern and Contemporary Art Collection, Paper Works