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The House That Jack Built
Shakespeare's Flowers
Shakespeare's Harvest
Shakespeare: Man of Property
The Fortune Teller
Tower of London A to Z
Old London Bridge
The Malvern Story
Sonnet XVIII
Morgan
Sea Change
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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.
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| 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 |
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DE WALDEN PRESS OUT WEST - THE BIG MOVE
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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'.
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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
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MOVE
BRINGS CHANGES
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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.
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MINIATURE BOOKS ON THE WEB
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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.
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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
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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
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LINKS TO SPECIALIZED SUPPLIERS OF
BOOKMAKING MATERIALS
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Ann Muir Marbling - Hand Marbled paper http://members.lycos.co.uk/annmuirmarbling
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SITES RELATED TO CONTENT OF DE WALDEN
PRESS BOOKS
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'Morgan'
The Morgan Motor Company Ltd. www.morgan-motor.co.uk
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'The Tower of London A to Z' Her
Majesty's Royal Palaces http://www.hrp.org.uk/TowerOfLondon/
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'Shakespeare's Flowers' & 'Shakespeare's
Harvest' Royal Botanic Gardens Kew www.rbgkew.org.uk/library
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'Shakespeare: Man of Property' The
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust www.shakespeare.org.uk
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'Old London Bridge' www.oldlondonbridge.com
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SITES RELATING TO LETTERPRESS PRINTING
& BOOKBINDING
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National Library of Canada, Private Presses
www.nlc-bnc.ca/presses
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Frog Hollow Press www.froghollowpress.com
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Fine Press Book Association www.fpba.com
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Canadian Bookbinders & Book Artists Guild www.cbbag.ca
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Society of Bookbinders www.societyofbookbinders.co
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| Barbarian Press www.barbarianpress.com |
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jan(at)dewaldenpress.com
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