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Alecto Historical Editions was set up in 1962 and intially specialised in printing and publishing original prints. At the end of the 1970s the company diversified into publishing new editions from the original copper plates of important 18th- and 19th-century portfolios and into creating facsimiles of original source material from works on paper and medieval manuscripts.
In 1984 Alecto was invited by the Public Record Office (now The National Archives) to undertake a facsimile of Domesday Book while it was unbound for restoration. So, when the original document was stripped of its binding, each folio was laid flat and photographed using an overhead camera the size of a small car. From these original photographic plates, Alecto has produced a series of Domesday facsimile products ranging from the leather bound “Millennium Edition” to the “County Edition” (one for each of the 34 Great Domesday counties and for each of the three Little Domesday counties). Click here to visit the Alecto website to discover more about these superb facsimile editions of Domesday Book.
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