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Show A NOTE REGARDIN va or n o hi ost it c re n fe u THE MAKING OF THIS BOO cases these commerctally produced publications were sopoorly prnted and the colour work so much out of register, that they had to be almos ,dd(ng ndertak these fllustrations were printed on our two Washngton hand presse manufactured by Paul Shnfedewend £ Chicago. Because i s impos ibl to print half-tone black and white and colo 50 Pressof this type, this work was accomplished elsewhere as mentfone th Acknowledgment sectfo of Volume L. The venerable Buche Engraving Company, Columbus, Ohfo, submitte over ffve hundre separate line engraving in a pafnstakin ef ort to produce the qual f work requested. For colour printfng man tfmes I had to cut specta Inoleum tfnt-blocks whilein other fnstances watercolour was and. Varfous types of pape were employed for these fllustration nattempt toemulate, as close as posstble, the paper and co 9tfginals,thereby makin it essentfa for tipping them on the text pages seattempts foraccuracy greatly added to the labour fnvolved fn pr ductng these volumes. At times the paper was stained or dyed prior t rinting, but fnother fnstances {t was ne tocolour ftafterwards Practcafl all of th colour used tn the st {ning o m defmnmgamcphnu,om partof aplant, including parsley,spinach Jutceof thecommon beet loodroot, walnut hulls,chickory,sumac Efildemod marigold, eldcrberryand blueberry. All were found ideal fo Fo duc(ng man of the special watermarks shown fn Volume II il\Comple(e handmade paper mill had to be destgned and excted i th ngc«eu«: room of ou Mountatn House Befose wsing {, Father's exPer ter had to huonxlderablyrepa(red Ithad beenoriginall l]i/![llfzedmhmh(heM rlboroug and LimeRoc Millsand fn the Pape um work room at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology fo ' 2termark reproductions used { "Papermaking by Hand fn Amerfca. Ponderouswet-presso steel | beams wasconstructe towithstand th Rressure from a fifty ton hydraulicjack. Luckily, many of the orfgtna 178Lish hand-woven woolen couchfng felts had been tore since thet Simacti use tn the Lime Rock Mill1n 1932, and were stil fn excellen { { i (| ) ;"vfceablecondmon.Te mplet mhemembly,a« (blcva t was mad A e igh to hand]ltniLechur 16 by 23 tnchmo 5 labour, accompanied by the norma ruxmmuns sovolvedin Drintingawork ol this magnflude\the taslc ha atlast been concluded m""‘: Y hope that t these two volumes will, in some measure, add to e curiosity and fntefgo the varied Ife work of Dard Elunte Digital mage © 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rihts reserved |