Glanville harry (3 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good paperback. Overall a bright and attractive copy. No marks to the text. The half-title page is loose but laid in. 123 pp.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Good paperback. Overall a great reading copy. Scattered marginalia, though the majority of the text is clean and bright. Pen marks to the rear cover. 110 pp.

Limited Edition. Small Octavo. 25 pages. Limited to only 114 copies. The present copy is #28 signed by Harry Glanville. Handmade paper by Peter Thomas with folded blue paper covers over stiff card stock, light blue paper wraps with pieces of old manuscript vellum indentures interwoven through wraps, paper label lettered in black, the handmade paper had been produced at the Wookey Mill. Today, although the mill is run as a tourist attraction, some paper is still being made there by hand. In September of 1988, Peter Thomas and Gillian Spires visited Wookey Hole and afterwards met with Cyril Finn, a vat man who had recently retired from that same mill. At the end of their interview Cyril said, 'If you want to meet a really old papermaker, you should go to Wells and meet the man who trained me.' So they set up a meeting the next week with Harry Glanville who was then ninety-two years old, born on the thirteenth of August 1896 in Hurst-Batch, Somerset. A beautifully printed work on handmade paper from the Wookey Mill. A fine copy. …