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The Stanbrook Abbey Press : ninety-two years of its history: PB 770155

Object information

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Titles

The Stanbrook Abbey Press : ninety-two years of its history

Maker(s)

Publisher: Stanbrook Abbey Press
Binder (person): Mason, John (son of John Henry)
Paper maker: Mason, John (son of John Henry)

Categories

Description

Written and illustrated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook.

Xiv,[2],180p : ill ; 23cm.

Place(s) associated

  • Worcester

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Unknown

Dating

Production date: AD 1970

Note

"50 special numbered copies bound in full leather with supplementary volume of printing specimens. 450 copies copies bound in cloth." This copy specially bound. Note dated 14 Nov. 1970 signed by John Mason laid in: "This is one of a very few copies which Dame Hildelith kindly let me have in unbound sheets. The enabled me to bind them myself with goatskin spine, hand block printed sides and my own Twelve by Eight endpapers hand made from field plants and grasses which I had gathered near Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds. I am greatly flattered that such kind mention is made of my papers on page one hundred and two of this work."

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 770155
Primary reference Number: 110143
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 22 June 2012 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "The Stanbrook Abbey Press : ninety-two years of its history" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110143 Accessed: 2024-03-28 20:30:23

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