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The Legacy Press

 

The Legacy Press

 

Books about the Printing, Paper, and Bookbinding Arts

Publication is expected in mid-June 2019.

 

To pre-order a copy, email: thelegacypress@gmail.com

 

Papermaker ’s Tears: Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper

 

Vol. 1

 

Tatiana Ginsberg, editor

The new series, Papermaker's Tears:  Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper encompasses all of the papermaking and paper arts, including decorated papers – historical and current.

 

Authors and essay titles include the following::

 

•  Cathleen A. Baker  •  The Wove Paper in John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757):

Made on a Cloth-Covered Laid Mould

 

•  Nicole Donnelly  •  Douglass Morse Howell: Breaking the Mould. Part I

 

•  Susan Gosin  •  Founding of Dieu Donné

 

•  Kyoko Ibe  •  On Gampi

 

•  Aimee Lee  •  The Toolmakers – Those Who Build So We Can Make.

Part I: Timothy Moore and David Reina

 

•  Radha Pandey  •  Traditional Papermaking in India: Then and Now

 

•  Peter Thomas  •  An Account of My Trip to Find the Hand Papermills of

Eastern Europe

360 pages  •  378 full-color illustrations  •  hardcover  •  $85

 

This book will also be available in sheets at $55; click here for more information.