king library press fall book arts seminar

Printing Miniature Books

Peter Thomas

Friday, 19 September 2003, 7:30 p.m.
The Peal Gallery, Department of Special Collections
M. I. King Library, University of Kentucky

— Free and Open to All —

He's just published Cannery Row in a can!
He carries books in a ukulele case, but he can make books that look like ukuleles — or accordions or concertinas.
And who's at the top of the list
for publishers of miniature books on
The Miniature Book Society's home page?
PETER THOMAS — printer, designer, binder, papermaker — makes beautiful books, some of them on such bookish topics as papermaking. Others are wonderfully creative products of an inventive mind, imaginative books in alternative structures.

Saturday: 20 September 2003

A Scroll Book Workshop

Continental Breakfast & Registration: 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.

— Lunch on your own —

Artist's books and alternative book structures are challenging the imagination of creative publishers. Work with Peter Thomas, a leading figure in the world of miniature books and alternative structures, to create a scroll book — printing a text and establishing its structure in a form at once ancient and innovative.

Register for

"Exploring the Miniature Book and the Doweled Scroll Binding"

See approximately fifty miniature books made in the last three centuries and learn about the history of the miniature book. Each participant will be given a copy of the Miniature Book Society's competition catalog. Print from metal type and make a unique "stick structure" binding of the kind used in Peter and Donna Thomas's 1000 Miles to the Gulf.

Registration $35.00 / Class Size Limited

To register for

The Fall Book Arts Workshop with Peter Thomas

call 859 257-8408 or 859 257-8371 or contact klijdb@uky.edu and then mail your check in the amount of $35.00 payable to "University of Kentucky" to

The King Library Press
University of Kentucky Libraries
Lexington, KY 40506-0039

FOR THE SCROLL BOOK WORKSHOP BRING a half-inch acrylic paintbrush, scraps of paper and paints and pens to illustrate and add text to your book. You might want to bring images and small objects to collage. Other supplies will be provided.

The King Library Press — Dr. Paul Evans Holbrook, Director, with Alex Brooks, David Elbon, John Johnson, Frank Jones, and Eric VanOsdol.

www.uky.edu/libraries/klp

PETER THOMAS is active in The Miniature Book Society, The Friends of Dard Hunter, and the International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists. His research into the history of papermaking is internationally recognized, and his work has been featured in Time magazine and elsewhere.