Current Location: In storage
Titles
A boy at the Hogarth Press
Maker(s)
Author:
Kennedy, Richard
Publisher:
Whittington Press
Paper maker:
Wookey Hole Paper Mill
Binder (person):
Hunter and Foulis
Categories
Description
By Richard Kennedy, illustrated by the author; with an introduction by Bevis Hillier.
xi, 87 pages, folded leaf : illustrations ; 26 cm
"This edition of 520 copies was printed by Leslie Randle, Rosalind Randle and Charles Lowndes at Whittington Court, Gloucestershire, on Columbian Press no. 1275, made in 1848. The type is 12-pt Caslon, and the paper is Mould Made from Wookey Hole Mill, Somerset. The batik cover on the cloth copies was designed by Joan Charleston and printed by Garry Savege, and the books bound by Hunter & Foulis Ltd, Edinburgh. The line blocks were made by Craske, Vaus & Crampton Ltd, and the fold-out view of the Hogarth Press was printed lithographically C. F. R. Woodward Ltd, Bath."--Colophon.
Museum has copy no. 166 signed by the author.
Place(s) associated
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(2016)
by
Stevenson, Robin
Stevenson, Wendy
Dating
Production date:
AD 1972
Note
"The book was designed and the letterpress was printed by Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge; it was set by The Stellar Press [Hatfield] ... the plates were selected and printed by Christopher Skelton at his Press at Wellingborough." --t.p. verso.
Privately printed - This number 70 of 230 copies.
Components of the work
Support
composed of
paper
Materials used in production
Ink
Techniques used in production
Printing
Identification numbers
Accession number: PB 27-2016
Primary reference Number: 208424
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Thursday 25 February 2016
Updated: Monday 30 September 2019
Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
