John Mason (compiler)
Oliver Bayldon (author)
Rigby Graham (illustrator)
The Paper Makers Craft
Twelve by Eight Mill, Millbourn, Wookey Hole, and Hayle Mills (handmade paper)
Will Carter (printer)
Twelve By Eight Press, Leicester: 1965
Quarto, gilt-stamped faux-vellum boards, publisher’s clear mylar protective jacket and protective board chemise
Signed by John Mason, numbered 293
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The Paper Makers Craft
Artist's Book by John Mason, England: 1965
Artist's Book by John Mason, England: 1965
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Please see our other hand made paper collection by John Mason.
Beautiful limited edition artist’s book containing 24 handmade paper pages from Millbourn, Wookey Hole, and Hayle Mills, and John Mason's Twelve By Eight Mill in Leicester, U.K. Text by Bayldon and illustrations by Graham are printed on the pages in letterpress in five colors. The book is signed by John Mason and numbered 293, of an edition of less than 400.
Mason was active in the 1960s, right before a major revival of hand papermaking in Western art in the Seventies and Eighties. Mason’s colophon for another book comments that there were a handful of hand papermaking studios in England at the time. The practice of this craft is now widespread, with established organizations such as the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists.
The colophon reads as follows:
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. Alas, no longer is paper made by hand anywhere else in England. Of this edition there are less than four hundred copies, of which this is Number 293.
John Mason [autographed signature]
Leicester