[The Old School Press] Harris, Peter

Copy number '81' of an edition limited to 150 copies, this copy bound by Woolnough Bookbinding. The 96 pages of text were printed in 14/16pt Bembo on a large page of 175gsm Magnani mould-made paper, on a Western proof press. These pages were then bound into a volume with a hand-blocked paper on the boards - the paper was prepared especially for the edition by Alberto Valese in Venice, using a pattern taken from the facade of Ca' d'Oro, one of the finest Gothic palaces on the Grand Canal, and just along from the building in which the author and his wife lived. Each illustration was printed on a separate sheet of 225gsm Somerset paper made of 100% cotton, making it easier to follow the illustrations when they are called for in the text and also to frame and display them individually. To print the images an Epson 2100 printer was used with pigment-based inks thereby assuring good longevity of the images. The seventy-two sheets of images are separated by chapter with sheets of brown Fabriano Ingres on which captions are printed to accompany the images. These sheets are collected in a solander box which is covered in another paper from Alberto Valese - a repeated tile pattern in grey. The solander box and bound volume are presented in a slip case in a pale yellow cloth with a spine label.