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(Bird & Bull Press) Morris (Henry). Omnibus: Instructions for amateur papermakers with notes and observations on private presses, book printing and some people involved in these activities. 8vo, p.123 Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, PA, 1967.

Set in Centaur, Emerson &c.; one of 500 copies printed in black and various colours on ‘Bird and Bull’ hand-made paper. 13 reproductions of drawings, 8 pages of photographs, 2 pages of watermarks in blind. Inserted sample sheets. Quarter brown morocco, spine gilt, with cream cloth boards printed with a pattern of a laid mould in yellow tan. A fine copy.                    

Printed on a variety of hand-made papers: there is paper from the Dard Hunter mill at Lime Rock, Connecticut, from Australia, and from the Bird & Bull Press. Of  123pp, 34 pages are from these three sources.

 

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