handmade papers of Japan
Subtitle: a biographical sketch of its author and an account of the genesis and production of the book
By: by Sidney E. Berger ; with a reprint of the original text by Thomas Keith Tindale and Harriett Ramsey Tindale.
Contributors: Berger, Sidney E.; Tindale, Harriett Ramsey, joint author.; Flavin, Richard, 1943-; Serizawa, Keisuke, 1895-1984; Bates, Wesley W.; Bird & Bull Press.
Publisher: Bird & Bull Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Newtown, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: Tindale, Thomas Keith.; Paper industry -- Japan.
Notes: [16] p. of plates printed on double leaves.

[4] p. of text inserted between [3] leaves of paper samples.

"170 copies printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper at the Bird & Bull Press in August, 2001  The book was composed in Dante types by Michael and Winifred Bixler and bound by the Campbell-Logan bindery."--Colophon.

"The illustrations on the half-titles to each volume were drawn by Richard Flavin ... The illustrations which precede Kamisuki Taigai and A Papermaking Village, are derived from two of the stencilled endpapers by Keisuke Serizawa in the original volumes."--P. [3] at end.

"In addition to Berger's text the present book reprints the original text along with appended new material and many photographs from the Tindale archives which are not in the original volumes. ... included: the thirty-two full page photos of "A Papermaking Village" ... the color illustrations from the early manuscript, Kamisuki Taigai. The twenty magnificent watermarks from volume four are shown in color photos ... and include a portrait watermark of Tindale, which was not included in the original book. Also included is an assortment of contemporary Japanese papers that were not used in the 1952 volume, as well as some Chinese papers and other paperiana that was part of the Tindale archives. Wesley W. Bates has executed a five-color full page woodcut, "Steaming Kozo", which appears as a frontispiece."--Publisher's prospectus.

MASS copy: No. 101. Bound in brown quarter morocco with black rib-grain cloth blocked in gold, with gold blocked morocco title label on spine. Encased in a red rib-grain cloth covered box, with publisher's prospectus laid in.
Table of contents: value: Introduction.; value: Thomas Keith Tindale.; value: THE BOOK: The Handmade Papers of Japan.; value: Notes / Sidney E. Berger.; value: The Handmade Papers of Japan: Volume I.; value: Volume II.; value: Volume III.; value: Volume IV / Thomas Keith Tindale [and] Harriett Ramsey Tindale.