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  • Collection: Peter and Donna Thomas Books

E10. Wake Up

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20 x 15 cm (7 ¾” x 6”) 30 copies.

Binding: Portfolio folder constructed of handmade and painted paper. Folder bound with a green pencil. Paper: Handmade by the participants of the summer writing program. Printing: Letterpress. Notes: Collaboration…

E13. Where the Crossing happens

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17 x 13cm (6 ¾” x 5 ¼”) 38 copies.

Binding: Dowel Spine portfolio (developed by the Thomases) contains fifteen broadsides. Decorated with a unique acrylic print (made indirectly from metal type) Paper: Canson Mi Teintes. Printing: Letterpress on…

E5. Nine Poets

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76 x 60 mm (3” x 2 3/8”) 30 copies.

“We developed the dowel spine portfolio as the binding for this series of miniature broadsides made while we were teaching a workshop at the Naropa Institute's Kavyayantra Press. The press did not have a…

E4. From Marriage: A Sentence

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76 x 54 mm (3” x 2 1/8”) 16 copies.

E9. Naropa 2004

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16 x 4 cm (6 ¼” x 1 ¾”) 10 copies.

Binding: Eight individual sheets housed in a handmade “Dowel Spine portfolio”. Folder is decorated with printed words that were used on the sheets Paper: Handmade by Peter. Printing: Letterpress printed. Notes:…

A121. Time I$

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63.5 x 51 mm (2 ½” x 2”), 10 pages, 100 copies.

Binding: Flap book; full-bound in printed white paper over boards. Five dowels with flaps that flip to display text are set in a wooden frame affixed to the back inside cover of the binding. Dowels…

A63. Aesop's Frog Fables

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20.5 x 14 cm (8” x 5 ½”), 24 pages, 50 copies.

Binding: Full-bound in green suede. Title in green on cover. End sheets green. Housed in green paper slipcase. Title in green or gold on cover. Paper: Green or turquoise, handmade by Peter Thomas.…

A61. Celia Fiennes

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65 x 51 mm (2 9/16” x 2”), 22 pages, 200 copies.

Binding: Copies 1-25 are full-bound in brown goatskin. Title in gold on spine. Copies 26-200 are bound in paper from text of Keble’s Reports over boards. Title and illustration on cover. Title…

A68. You Can't Make Paper From a Loofah

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21.5 x 14 cm (8 ½” x 5 ½”), 32 pages, 15 copies.

Binding: Coptic binding. Covers are pastel green handmade paper boards textured with deeply indented laid lines. Paper: White, Svecia Antiqua. Printing: Digital. Typography: Palatino. Illustration:…

A7. The Maid and Her Cat

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17 x 9cm (6 5/8” x 3 5/8”), 12 pages, 25 copies.

Binding: Folder, full cloth brown marbled velveteen tied with burgundy ribbon. Etching mounted on left cover. Text mounted on right cover, or folder, full cloth red and purple marbled velveteen tied…