About the Press

De Walden Press was established in 1996 to publish the first of Kellett's books, "The Malvern Story", and since then has published a further eleven titles. Six of these books to date have received Distinguished Book Awards, in 1996, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2007 from the Miniature Book Society, Inc. These are awarded annually to books chosen from a worldwide field of entrants to the Miniature Book Society Competition, and judged by experts from the book world.

Each is a limited edition. No more than the specified number is produced, making these truly rare books. The smallest edition to date is that of "Sea Change", a miniature parchment scroll produced in an edition of only twenty-five. Most editions are of less than fifty copies. Future editions will be no more than thirty.

All De Walden Press publications are miniatures. In the book world a miniature is usually a book that is no larger than three inches in any dimension. Kellett has chosen this difficult format because she enjoys the challenge of scaling down thoughts, text, images, and materials to create a readable, workable small scale book that is a pleasure to handle and to enjoy.

Each book is hand made using archival quality materials, and binding methods. Kellett trained originally as a bookbinder, and uses her experience and skills to ensure that everything she makes reaches a high standard of construction.

De Walden Press books are in public and private collections worldwide, and a complete collection is owned by Emory University at Atlanta, GA. They can also be seen at the British Library, London; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Birmingham Central Library; the Library of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford upon Avon; Maryland Institute College of Art & Design Library; Lilly Library, University of Indiana; Neilson Library, Smith College; Folger Shakespeare Library; University of North Texas; University of Alberta; University of Calgary; Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto; McGill University; Toronto Public Library; Texas A & M University; Simon Fraser University; University of Melbourne; University of Tulsa; Vanderbilt University; University of British Columbia; Vancouver Public Library; Queen's University, Kingston; University of Denver and the National Library of Canada.