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Celebration
by Peter Grant - 10:38 on 13 August 2025
One of my best selling books, "Celebration" is a Wedding Song collected from the Scottish Highlands in the Nineteenth century by Alexader Carmichael.
Often bought as a unique wedding present, "Celebration" has found its way all over the World, Poland, America, Australia and all over the UK.
Quite a straightforward book to print - even though it is miniature (45mm x 65mm), the binding is tricky as the front cover has a recess backed by a different colour cover paper overlaid by metallic "lace".
The first printings then had a "teardrop" embellishment in the recess to complete the decoration.
No longer available (at least I could not find any), instead I used two "hearts", which I think is an even better look.
The paper used for the text block is hand made from Hahnmuele in Germany, and the font used - is - well, I bought it second-hand as a card font call Arabian Bold (12pt). Try as I might to buy more of this font - I have looked in every catalogue I can find to no avail. I am sure the title is not the right one, which does not help.
Has anyone out there got any?
