Twelve by Eight - The Paper Maker's Craft, by Oliver Bayldon. Illustrations by Rigby Graham.

The Paper Maker's Craft, by Oliver Bayldon. Illustrations by Rigby Graham. Small folio,  pp.x,19 + 6 illustrations, 30cm, Printed by Will Carter at Cambridge for the Twelve by Eight Press, Leicester, 1965.

Number 161 of less than 400 copies, signed by John Mason, printed in black (the title-page in black and red; the frontispiece in black and turquoise green; the other illustrations in chestnut brown, blue, dark green or brown) in Monotype Bembo on various hand-made papers (Millbourn, Wookey Hole, Barcham Green and Twelve by Eight). Side-stitched in one section, and bound in semi-limp Linson Vellum, blocked in gold on the spine and front cover. Endpapers made from grasses taken from the park at Blenheim Palace. Acetate dust-jacket. A fine copy

A free translaton of the seventeenth-century Latin poem `Papyrus' by Father Imberdis S.J.