I had been keeping my stock of Finale until all remaining 4,500 sheets could be used it for a special publication. Finale was the last paper ever made at Hayle Mill and and included a special watermark designed by Claire van Vliet of the Janus Press. Most of the original stock was used for "The Green Family of Papers and Hayle Mill by Maureen P. Green which was published by the Janus Press - see this item
I am now delighted to announce that the last of the Finale has been used by the Arion Press of San Francisco for "100 Love Sonnets" by Nobel Award Winner. As Arion write:
Pablo Neruda’s astonishing love poems are the most beloved and oft-quoted works of a towering figure in Latin American letters. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971, Neruda was revered throughout his lifetime as Chile’s “poet of the people” and is considered one of the 20th century’s most influential poets. Arion Press is honored to present the first fine press bilingual edition of his celebrated cycle of 100 sonnets, printed in English and Spanish on historic handmade paper in collaboration with four renowned contemporary Latinx artists.
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The Paper: In 1987, a renowned paper mill on a tributary of the River Thames, Hayle Mill, couched its final sheet of handmade paper. “Finale,” made of 100% flax, was the last paper made there by Barcham Green, which also crafted the bespoke paper on which Arion’s monumental Moby-Dick was printed in 1979. The paper used in this book, then, is historic: the last of its kind and of special significance to the Press.
The Fine Press Edition
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Four frontispieces tipped by hand into frames debossed into the paper
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Machine-sewn, square-backed binding
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Two-color, cloth-and-paper slipcase imprinted front and back in black and bordeaux inks
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Limited to 190 copies
