A30. A Tale of Life

A30. Peter Thomas. A Tale of Life. Logan, Utah: The Good Book Press, 1984.

38 x 26 cm (15” x 10 ¼”), 8 pages, 75 copies.

Binding: Ivory paper with red and purple pulp embellishment, handmade by Peter Thomas, over boards. Title on spine and cover. Paper: Cream with red and blue threads, handmade by Peter Thomas. Printing: Letterpress. Typography: Hand set Centaur; title and ornaments in red and blue. Illustration: Eight ornaments and two illustrations; all are linocuts by Donna Thomas.

“Some time after we printed A Tale of Life in miniature [A11], Donna made the large linocut used in this book. Inspired by that cut and Eric Gill’s combination of illustration and typography in The Golden Cockerell Press’s Four Gospels, we began to experiment with a large-format book. We must have made fifty different title and text pages before we settled on the ones used in this book.”