Took off to Seattle for a short break from it all. Major scores at the many excellent music shops down there - a trove of Bill Laswell discs. And a few other finds...
...Hopefully this isn't referring to Barbara...
...One Claudia's all I can keep up with...
Spent an evening looking through a copy of the Pennyroyal Caxton Bible, primarily at the text printing. It was done by Bradley Hutchinson and is a model of consistency and clarity. The printing took 30 months, which makes my recent whinings about long days particularly lame. I believe the sheets were printed damp: the edition was 400 copies, plus 30 deluxe on different paper, so to allow for wastage etc he probably was running at least 500 sheets. I'd be interested to know what it's like printing damp sheets on a mechanized press, and just how he managed the logistics of damping & drying that many sheets.
Got the title pages for the deluxe copies of XI LXVImos to Francesca, who will begin the calligraphy on each.
AND ANOTHER THING!
The image at the top looks like a marbled paper, but it ain't. At least, not yet.
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