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Matrix 3 : a review for printers and bibliophiles: PB 37-2016

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Matrix 3 : a review for printers and bibliophiles

Maker(s)

Publisher: Whittington Press

Entities

Categories

Description

151 pages, [12] pages of plates (1 folded) : illustrations, 14 samples ; 29 cm
The specimens are mounted on blank pages included in page count.
One of 475 copies.

Contents: In memory of my dad / Jeremy Sandford -- Panoply of paper : on collecting decorated papers / Hans Schmoller -- The wood-engravings of John Lawrence / Peter Guy -- Papermaking by hand / Maureen Richardson -- Sans Serif / Richard Kennedy -- Techniques of marbling paper / Anne Chambers -- Taller Martin Pescador / Juan Pascoe -- Letter to the editor -- The availability of hand-made, mould-made, and fine machine-made papers / John Purcell -- Arnold Fawcus and the Trianon Press / Sebastian Carter -- The printers and their skills : a craft destroyed / Cynthia Cockburn -- Saint Albert's Press : Aylesford and Llandeilo, 1955-1961 -- Pub signs for Samuel Webster / Kathleen Lindsley -- A Norfolk dream / Juliet Standing -- Noel Rooke : the early years / Justin Howes -- An engraver's apprentice / Michael Renton -- Fine private press books of 1982 / Michael Taylor -- Joseph Blumenthal and the Spiral Press / Sebastian Carter -- Hot-metal typesetting in 2000 / John Randle -- John Barcum Green / Rémy Green -- The vacant frame / Robert Brough.

Place(s) associated

  • Andoversford ⪼ Gloucestershire

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (2016) by Stevenson, Robin Stevenson, Wendy

Dating

Production date: AD 1983

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 37-2016
Primary reference Number: 208527
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 14 April 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

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Matrix 3 : a review for printers and bibliophiles" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/208527 Accessed: 2024-11-22 06:29:06

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