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Creator:
Green, Maureen
Title(s):
Papermaking at Hayle Mill, 1808-1987 / Maureen Green.
Additional Title(s):
Hayle Mill
Published/Created:
Newark, Vt. : Janus Press, 2008.
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., map, photos. ; 27 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
TS1096.H39 G47 2008+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Ellen Dorn Levitt and Claire Van Vliet assisted in the production.
"This edition limited to two hundred copies ..."--Colophon of Hayle Mill vol.
Letterpress printed by Claire Van Vliet. The book was printed on Finale, the last paper made at Hayle Mill, and is bound in Barcham Green Nefertiti paper with longstitch, executed by Audry Holden. The portrait of Samuel Green was prepared and printed on Epson Archival paper by Ellen Dorn Levitt who also scanned the watermarks and maps preparing them, with Claire Van Vliet, for platemaking. The map is printed letterpress on Finale and opens out to three feet wide. A portfolio of twelve Barcham Green papers is enclosed in an India Office paper wrapper. A portfolio of nineteen historic photographs from 1870 to 1977 of the mill and the processes of handpapermaking were scanned by Ellen Dorn Levitt from old prints in the Hayle MIll Archive and cleaned up in Photoshop. They were printed by Emily Corrow on a Xerox Docucolor 240 copier in Hammermill 100lb archival cover copy paper together with a diagram of the mill layout in 1978 all enclosed in a De Wint paper wrapper. All the papers used were handmade by Barcham Green and Company at Hayle Mill. Issued in a linen-covered clamshell box (29 x 22 x 8 cm.) made with Japanese and Scholco cloth covering the stays. Inside lining of Barcham Green Martian Badger and covers of linen by Mary Richardson and Audrey Holden. Contents statement printed on the inside front cover of box. Title letterpress printed on paper label on box spine.
Issued in a box (29 x 22 x 8 cm.).
BAC: British Art Center copy in clamshell box with white linen ties.
AOB has an unnumbered copy, inscribed "for Yale University".
Subject Terms:
Artists' books.
J. Barcham Green, Ltd -- History.
Paper, Handmade -- England.
Papermaking -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Papermaking -- England -- History -- 20th century.
Form/Genre:
Artists' books -- Great Britain
Contributors:
Levitt, E. D. (Ellen Dorn)
Van Vliet, Claire.
Janus Press.
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  • Hayle Mill
  • Loose Valley map
  • Mill photographs
  • Sample papers.

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