Words of Fire binding
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    The ancient Greek concept of areté means excellence of any kind. Our books are made to the highest standards of craftsmanship at every step

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    Ludlow Bookbinders bind our books. They are one of the UK's major hand-bookbinders and winners of multiple awards

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    We choose the finest archival papers for our books and have even commissioned special makings of hand-made paper that carries our own watermark

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    We print text and line images by letterpress. Once the dominant printing technology, it is now a specialist process that imparts its own feel to the printed page

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    Some of our texts are set on a Monotype machine, a system of mechanical typesetting that revolutionised printing and dominated book printing for more than sixty years

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    Hand composition is an essential part of our process. Our books are put together using the skills of the compositor that date back to the fifteenth century

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    Areté is the art of living to one's full potential

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