Paul L. Kershaw

This book contains a first translation of a chapter from Papillon's Traité Historique et Pratique de la Gravure en Bois, published in 1766, entitled Instructions on how to print woodcuts properly. There is also an Appendix giving a brief survey of English-speaking commentators about whether Papillon was wood engraving – as it is now defined using endgrain wood – or woodcutting.

210 x 130mm, 27pp 

Grapho Editions, 2013   

£30   (including packaging & postage for UK customers)

Printed on Magnani Biblos mould-made paper, using a Victoria press. There are 100 copies in the edition. The setting is Romain BP. It is quarter-bound in cloth, with a specially designed patterned paper cover. This, and the typesetting, printing and binding, is my own work, as is the Appendix.