Matrix 4 : a review for printers and bibliophiles: PB 38-2016

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Matrix 4 : a review for printers and bibliophiles

Maker(s)

Entities

Journal (periodical)

Description

150 pages, [22] pages of plates : illustrations, 18 samples ; 29 cm
The specimens are mounted on pages included in page count.
One of 590 copies

Contents: Artist and printer : a problem of the Cranach Press "Hamlet" resolved / L.M. Newman -- Otley and the Wharfedale Printing Press / Paul Wood -- Printing for pleasure at the John Roberts Press / Bernard Roberts -- "Any fool can cut a punch--" / Stan Nelson -- Greek types and Van Krimpen's Antigone / Michael Mitchell -- The development of the monotype machine / John Randle -- The monotype in America / Harold Berliner -- Chinese papercuts / David Butcher -- Cobden-Sanderson to Hornby / Rachel Salmond -- Money to burn / Hans Schmoller -- Money to burn : an afterword / Roderick Cave. -- The Cambridge University Press in the early '30s / Brooke Crutchley -- The private press revisited / Roderick Cave -- Lettice Sandford's engravings / David Chambers -- The making of The engravings of Eric Gill / Christopher Skelton -- Josiah Wade and the Anglo-American Arab Press / Geoffrey Osborne -- Some notes on the design of poetry / Sebastian Carter -- The setting of plainchant / Valerie Cryer -- Will Ridler, 1901-1980 / Dorothy A. Harrop -- John R. Biggs and the Hampden Press / John Randle -- St. Dominic's Press : a supplement to the 1979 check-list / Brocard Sewell -- Private press books 1983 : a review / Michael Taylor -- The intoxicating pleasures of The private press / David Butcher.

Place(s) associated

Andoversford ⪼ Gloucestershire

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: AD 1984

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.