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NEW BOOK! QUALICUM BLUE HAS ARRIVED - PLEASE CHECK OUT THE NEW PAGE.
NEW LINKS Shanty Bay Press - Walter Bachinski & Janis Butler www.shantybaypress.com -a new site showing beautifully illustrated letterpress books. Alcuin Society - http://www.alcuinsociety.comA Vancouver based society founded to promote a wider appreciation of finely wrought books among book lovers around the world. Alcuin organizes a book design competition and is presently planning the third Vancouver Waygoose, November 17, 2007, which will take place in Vancouver Public Library. Scroll down for further links.
SUBSCRIBERS' LIST & SMALLER EDITIONS.
De Walden Press books are made with great care and the process is very time-consuming. In order to give myself more time to make new books I have decided to reduce the size of the editions to no more that thirty. This means that costs such as printing are shared between fewer books, so the price per book will be slightly higher for the smaller edition. In order to lessen the effect of this on regular customers, and to ensure a copy is reserved for them, I have opened a Subscribers' List, whereby subscribers buy a book of each edition published and receive a discount. The list is now full. If you would like further details please contact me, jan+dewaldenpress.com
DE WALDEN PRESS OUT WEST - THE BIG MOVE
In 2003 Jan and her husband decided to move to Canada, to be nearer to Jan's family. This meant that all bookmaking ceased in Malvern in December 2002, so that the whole 'kit & caboodle' could be packed up ready to be shipped to Canada. Some six months later, it was delivered safely and only slightly rusty to its new location here in Qualicum Beach, and it was then possible to resume publication of 'Old London Bridge'.	The book had already been printed, the leather dyed, and all was ready for binding. Four copies were bound before leaving the U.K., and three were then packed away, so no copies were published until 2003, although the date inside the book shows 2002 as the publication date. A mystery for future collectors! The fourth bound copy was left with Peter Scott, who was writing an article about the Press, and this copy eventually found its way to the Miniature Book Society Annual Competition 2003, and won a Distinguished Book Award.
MOVE BRINGS CHANGES
Times change, and we have to try to go with the flow. The printer of 'Old London Bridge' decided to retire in 2004, and De Walden Press made the decision to undertake the job of printing its own publications on a hand press. After some searching, I found a small Craftsman platen printing press in Victoria, shipped it up to Qualicum Beach, and this is now in use. So from researching, writing and illustrating the text, to printing, binding and mailing books out to customers, everything from now on will be done in-house, except where stated.

LINKS TO SITES OF INTEREST

MINIATURE BOOKS ON THE WEB

Miniature Book Society, Inc. A society that promotes and publicizes miniature books of all types. including letterpress; calligraphic; finely bound; publishers editions; limited and not so limited editions. The Society's Miniature Book Competition entries for 2002 and 2003 are shown online, and the Society organizes an annual Conclave (meeting) which is attended by members from all over the world.

This year's meeting will take place in Seattle in October, coinciding with the Antiquarian Book Show. For further information, go to www.mbs.org Thus you can kill two birds with one stone, so to speak.

Lilly Library, University of Indiana A large and fascinating collection which includes the Ruth Adomeit archive. A number of books is shown online, with lots of supplementary information. www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/miniatures

The Charlotte M. Smith Collection of Miniature Books, University of Iowa Libraries. These books were exhibited in 1996 and this is shown online, at http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/bookcolls/Smith Miniature Collection/smithindex.htm

LINKS TO SPECIALIZED SUPPLIERS OF BOOKMAKING MATERIALS

Ann Muir Marbling - Hand Marbled paper http://members.lycos.co.uk/annmuirmarbling

SITES RELATED TO CONTENT OF DE WALDEN PRESS BOOKS

'Morgan' The Morgan Motor Company Ltd. www.morgan-motor.co.uk

'The Tower of London A to Z' Her Majesty's Royal Palaces http://www.hrp.org.uk/TowerOfLondon/

'Shakespeare's Flowers' & 'Shakespeare's Harvest' Royal Botanic Gardens Kew www.rbgkew.org.uk/library

'Shakespeare: Man of Property' The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust www.shakespeare.org.uk

'Old London Bridge' www.oldlondonbridge.com

SITES RELATING TO LETTERPRESS PRINTING & BOOKBINDING

National Library of Canada, Private Presses www.nlc-bnc.ca/presses

Frog Hollow Press www.froghollowpress.com

Fine Press Book Association www.fpba.com

Canadian Bookbinders & Book Artists Guild www.cbbag.ca

Society of Bookbinders www.societyofbookbinders.co

Barbarian Press www.barbarianpress.com

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