A126. Miniature Leaf Books
Title
A126. Miniature Leaf Books
Creator
Thomas, Peter and Donna
Description
73 x 57 mm (2 7/8” x 2 ¼”), 30 pages, 127 copies.
Binding: 120 copies are full-bound in brown paper, handmade by Peter Thomas and tinted with a raw umber wash, over boards. Title is printed on a label and attached to a sample of paper from Keble’s Reports on cover. End sheets cream with flecks of paper from Keble’s Reports. Hand-bound by the printers. Six copies are full-bound in brown Morocco leather. Sample of paper from Keble’s Reports inset on cover. Housed in a clamshell box covered in marbled paper. Title is printed on a label and attached to a sample of paper on cover. One copy is Coptic bound. Covers are striped in red Morocco leather and parchment. Housed in a slipcase covered in parchment and red Morocco leather. Title is printed on a label and attached to a sample of parchment on front of slipcase. Paper: Handmade by Peter Thomas from bleached denim rag. One copy is printed on vellum. Printing: Letterpress. Typography: Text is unknown roman type; set on a linotype machine. Titles handset Neuland. Illustration: Three miniature leaf samples tipped in. Seven copies include additional vellum leaves mounted under a mat board frame on an additional page at the back of the book, separated from the rest of the pages by leaves of marbled paper. Copy printed on vellum is hand-rubricated by Donna Thomas. Notes: Title page includes a sample from Keble’s Reports (see note in A59).
“A leaf book is a book that displays examples of pages from other books in it. This book gives a full explanation of what a leaf book is, tells the history of the leaf book and then presents three tipped in "leaf" pages (from an American Thumb Bible, a Bryce ‘Ellen Terry’ book and an American Tract Society Dew-Drops). Each leaf sample and the book it originally came from is described in the text. The book was letterpress printed on a cranky old Pearl treadle press using Joe Halton's linotype for the text and hand set Neuland for the titles. The text paper was made by Peter from bleached denim rag, the endpages have flecks of paper from Keble's Reports (1685). The book is case-bound using Peter's handmade paper that has been toned brown with a wash of raw umber. The title on the cover, the paper the title is mounted on, and the sample on the title page are all from Keble's Reports. This text was written in 1997, and set in type in 1998, but not printed until 2005. Although Peter wrote the text, the research was based largely on information provided by John Class.
When I mentioned my project to bookseller Michael Garbett, he gave me six miniature pages he found reinforcing the spine in a copy of Sacramentale Ambrosianum, (printed in Milan in 1589.) Those leaves, measuring 1 3/4 by 1 ½ inches, were clearly from an older manuscript; their date and place of origin are unknown.”
Binding: 120 copies are full-bound in brown paper, handmade by Peter Thomas and tinted with a raw umber wash, over boards. Title is printed on a label and attached to a sample of paper from Keble’s Reports on cover. End sheets cream with flecks of paper from Keble’s Reports. Hand-bound by the printers. Six copies are full-bound in brown Morocco leather. Sample of paper from Keble’s Reports inset on cover. Housed in a clamshell box covered in marbled paper. Title is printed on a label and attached to a sample of paper on cover. One copy is Coptic bound. Covers are striped in red Morocco leather and parchment. Housed in a slipcase covered in parchment and red Morocco leather. Title is printed on a label and attached to a sample of parchment on front of slipcase. Paper: Handmade by Peter Thomas from bleached denim rag. One copy is printed on vellum. Printing: Letterpress. Typography: Text is unknown roman type; set on a linotype machine. Titles handset Neuland. Illustration: Three miniature leaf samples tipped in. Seven copies include additional vellum leaves mounted under a mat board frame on an additional page at the back of the book, separated from the rest of the pages by leaves of marbled paper. Copy printed on vellum is hand-rubricated by Donna Thomas. Notes: Title page includes a sample from Keble’s Reports (see note in A59).
“A leaf book is a book that displays examples of pages from other books in it. This book gives a full explanation of what a leaf book is, tells the history of the leaf book and then presents three tipped in "leaf" pages (from an American Thumb Bible, a Bryce ‘Ellen Terry’ book and an American Tract Society Dew-Drops). Each leaf sample and the book it originally came from is described in the text. The book was letterpress printed on a cranky old Pearl treadle press using Joe Halton's linotype for the text and hand set Neuland for the titles. The text paper was made by Peter from bleached denim rag, the endpages have flecks of paper from Keble's Reports (1685). The book is case-bound using Peter's handmade paper that has been toned brown with a wash of raw umber. The title on the cover, the paper the title is mounted on, and the sample on the title page are all from Keble's Reports. This text was written in 1997, and set in type in 1998, but not printed until 2005. Although Peter wrote the text, the research was based largely on information provided by John Class.
When I mentioned my project to bookseller Michael Garbett, he gave me six miniature pages he found reinforcing the spine in a copy of Sacramentale Ambrosianum, (printed in Milan in 1589.) Those leaves, measuring 1 3/4 by 1 ½ inches, were clearly from an older manuscript; their date and place of origin are unknown.”
Publisher
Santa Cruz, California: Peter & Donna Thomas
Date
2005
Language
English
Files
Collection
Appears in Exhibits
Citation
Thomas, Peter and Donna, “A126. Miniature Leaf Books,” Digital Exhibits - UWM Libraries Special Collections, accessed November 16, 2024, https://web.uwm.edu/lib-omeka-spc2/items/show/576.