Another Idea...

Last night in bed I had a thought...having page after page of 'a,b,c' etc in each font sounds a bit dull to anyone other than a typographer. Besides, would be nice to see the font actually working in a sentence if you're going to adopt it. Maybe each sample font could be used to portrary a particular fact or something interesting about the library. This would also interest people who are fasinated about the historial side to the library, as well those interested in it as a resource. Will run this by Nigel. The rest of the day was spent researching materials on the net...wrote down a few addresses for sourcing materials that I can visit tomorrow including T J Bachlors (Highbury)for leather, Intaglio (London Bridge)and Paintworks (Hoxton) for paper/ink and Bookbinders of London (Old Street) for binding (seem to specialize in student 'one-offs' and expirimantal binding as they say on their website which is great!)

Finally discovered a letterpress emailing list which I joined called 'Letpress' specialing in letterpress concerns. This may turn out to be extremely useful for advice since I'm having trouble tracking down an expert.