from wassailing and well dressing to moon-phase rituals and Beltane fire-making
Fountain pen users and stationery lovers (there's a bit of tooth to the paper
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The Book-Makers - Adam Smyth Neon Kactus from wassailing and well dressingThis is an extraordinary story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error. Of printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper makers and library founders. Some we know. We meet jobbing printer (and United States Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin, and watch Thomas Cobden Sanderson conjure books that flicker between the 20th and 15th centuries. Others weve forgotten. We don't recall Sarah Eaves, wife of John Baskerville, and