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Paper-making at Barcham Green mill in the 1950s | |
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The original booklet whose text we are reprinting contains sixteen photographs of the process as described, showing workers at the mill, poised at the various stages - at the vat, couching, drying, etc. With the kind help of Simon Barcham Green, we have been fortunate to have had access to large prints of the photographs, some of them originals, and these are being digitally scanned for printing here at The Old School Press. The original booklet was somewhat constrained by the amount of space available, so some photographs were severely cropped, thus losing interesting detail, and printed at a small scale. We shall be printing the entire photograph in each case, without cropping, on a sheet that is A5 in size (210x148mm).
The picture above shows the cover of my rather tattered copy of the original. Whilst we don't plan to produce an exact facsimile, we will be following the flavour of the original in structure and typography. So the cover will carry the title and the delightful silhouette of the vatman, and it will be made using the heavier Chatham Vellum paper from Barcham Green. (The coloured paper in the background is their Antique Rose paper which we shall be using for the binding of the case.) We drove over to Kent to collect the paper, appropriate quantities of Finale, Chatham Vellum, and Antique Rose, now all safely here at the studio.
If you're interested in this title, do let us know if you haven't already. We expect the edition to be of 100 copies for sale and the price to be around £90 (euro115, US$130) plus shipping at cost. | ||
