Papermaking.- Thomas (Peter & Donna, compilers) The Tuckenhay Mill: People & Paper, number 22 of 30 copies signed by the compilers & including booklets and samples, this copy one of 12 with 18 paper samples, introductory booklet with paper samples made by Peter Thomas at Tuckenhay, together with booklets, samples and some additional material loose in original cloth drop-back box with original sales pamphlet mounted on upper cover, Santa Cruz, Peter & Donna Thomas, 2014; and another on papyrus, 4to & 8vo (2)

⁂ A remarkable insight into the craft of papermaking, this account of Peter Thomas's search to learn how to make paper, specifically the "vatman's shake", led him to Tuckenhay Mill in Devon where he met and interviewed several of the surviving papermakers and workers from the mill which had closed in 1970.

Comprising:

1. Thomas (Peter & Donna) They Made the Paper at Tuckenhay Mill: Interviews with retired hand papermakers, one of 30 copies, original pictorial wrappers, Santa Cruz, 2016

2. Digital Media on Flash Drive, audio files and original transcriptions of the interviews, plus a video recording of papermaking at Wookey Hole Mill, loose in paper pocket mounted on card

3. The Tuckenhay Paper Samples, 18 original paper samples made at Tuckenhay Mill, loose in paper folder

4. Cox (Catherine) Handmade Paper in Tuckenhay Devon, one of 500 copies, plates, original pictorial wrappers, uncut, Totnes, 1977

This copy contains additional material, namely a second edition of the first item signed by Peter Thomas, Ann Arbor, MI, Legacy Press, 2017; a copy of the photograph of the vat house at Tuckenhay in 1909 (reproduced in Catherine Cox's booklet); 'The Survival of Hand-made Paper' booklet printed on samples by papermakers including A.Millbourn & Co. of Tuckenhay, original wrappers, slightly spotted and frayed, [c.1930].

Library Hub records copies at the British Library, Cambridge and Oxford but we have been unable to trace any copies at auction.