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

Tatiana Ginsberg, editor

Volume 1 (2019)

360 pages • 378 illustrations • full color • hardcover  • 10 x 7 in. • 2019 •  9781940965147 • $85.00

Authors: Cathleen A. Baker, Nicole Donnelly, Susan Gosin, Kyoko Ibe, Aimee Lee, Radha Pandey, Peter Thomas

 

Sheila Waters

Waters Rising: Letters from Florence

496 pages • 283  illustrations • full color • hardcover • 10 x 7 in. • DVD • 2016 • 9781940965000 • $45.00

NB: Copies may be purchased from the author’s son, designer Julian Waters, by emailing: waterslettering@yahoo.com.

 

Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding

Julia Miller, editor

Volume 3

517 pages • 584 illustrations • full color • hardcover • 10 x 7 in. • DVD • 2016 • 9781940965024 • $85.00

 

 

Volume 4

350 pages • 333 illustrations • full color • hardcover • 10 x 7 in. • 2017 • 9781940965055 • $80.00

 

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Volume 6

528 pages • 584 illustrations • full color • hardcover • 10 x 7 • 2020 • 9781940965161 • $95.00

This volume is dedicated to the memory of Bernard C. Middleton (1924–2019).

 

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Elaine Koretsky

Killing Green: An Account of Hand Papermaking in China

217 pages • 85 illustrations • full color • hardcover • 9 x 6 in. • 2009 • 9780979797415 • $35.00

NB: Carriage House Paper may have copies of this book in stock; email: info@carriagehousepaper.com.

 

Paper & Mediums Study Collection

Cathleen A. Baker, compiler

In this Study Collection are 63 samples of American and European book and writing papers, dating from the 18th century into the 21st. Both handmade and machine-made papers are represented. Where possible, full or half sheets of writing papers, and signatures of printed book papers are included. Oversize sheets of blank machine-made papers have been trimmed (retaining at least one original edge) to the largest size possible; otherwise the papers are as found. Identified examples of iron-gall ink and three printing techniques – relief, intaglio, and lithograph, original and photomechanically and digitally reproduced – are also included. All of the samples are marked and identified for the purposes of comparing to unknowns, for in-house testing and/or for teaching. The fiber(s) contained in each paper sample have been identified by Integrated Paper Services Inc., and analytical tests for protein, starch, and lignin were performed by the compiler. Each sample is in an acid-free paper folder and folders are stored in one of three phase boxes, all of which, along with the binder and a copy of the 2nd printing of the compiler’s book From the Hand to the Machine, are housed in a custom-made cloth-covered clamshell box, measuring approximately 21 x 14 x 6 in. All samples are described in a database supplied in a binder in both hardcopy forms, and in FileMakerPro and .pdf files on a CD to enable keyword searches. Price (which included UPS shipping within U.S.) was $1,800.

 

Dorothy Field

Paper and Threshold: The Paradox of Spiritual Connection in Asian Cultures

Foreword by Jane M. Farmer

108 pages • 207 illustrations • full color • hardcover • 11.5 x 9.5 in. • 2007 • 9780979797408 • $45.00

 

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The following put-of-print books were hand-printed by Cathleen Baker, under her imprint The Legacy Press, while she was a student in the MFA in Book Arts Program at the University of Alabama, 1917–2000.

 

Jennifer Futernick

One Curve of Sugar

Edition 100; 34 pages, 9.25 x 5.75 inches. Letterpress-printed on Mohawk Superfine; illustrations by Larry Lou Foster; binding-meant-to-fall-apart (“Bugra”); signed by the author, illustrator, and printer. Original price: $35.00

 

Gaius Catullus

Carmen 1

Edition 50; French fold; unfolded: 9 x 12 in. Letterpress-printed on Mohawk Superfine with papyrus pop-up elements; signed by printer. Original price: $5.00

 

Cathleen A. Baker

The Story of Blue Betsey

Edition 30; 12 pages, 8 x 5.5 inches. Letterpress-printed on Mohawk Superfine; linocuts and hand-applied color; pamphlet binding (“Roma”); signed by author/printer. Original price: $25.00

 

Cathleen A. Baker • John DePol

Endgrain Designs & Repetitions: The Pattern Papers of John DePol

2000. Edition size 130; signed by both authors; 10.5 x 5.75 inches; 164 pages; 5 tipped-on color specimens of previously published pattern papers; letterpress-printed by hand on Mohawk Superfine paper from photopolymer plates; Diotima typeface. Binding by Gray Parrot; quarter black cloth with pattern-paper sides; paper label on spine, red endbands. Original price: $295.00

NB: This was the author’s MFA thesis project. The title is now available in an offset-printed edition: click on the book’s cover on this website’s home page for more information and to order.

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