Current Location: In storage
Titles
Matrix 5 : a review for printers and bibliophiles
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Publisher:
Whittington Press
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Description
[6], 30, [22], 33-164 pages, 16, [1] pages of plates : illustrations (some colour),facsimiles, specimens ; 29 cm
"Edition of 715 copies ... 635 copies are bound in stiff covers, and 80 copies in boards covered by Whittington marbled paper ..."--Title page verso.
Museum has no. 158 (stiff cover).
Contents: An Italian paperchase / Hans Schmoller -- Typographers tallied / David McKitterick -- The Curwen Press Collection in Cambridge University Library / John Dreyfus -- Harold Curwen, master printer and craftsman / Noel Carrington -- The running stationer, or The Chapman's wares / Enid Marx -- The Bird and Bull Press / Henry Morris -- A little world made cunningly / Sebastian Carter -- T.E. Lawrence and the printing of Seven pinsars of wisdom / J.M. Wilson -- Joss-paper money: a personal note / Say-Kim Butcher -- Logic, lucidity, and Mr. Morison / Brooke Crutchley -- Recent developments in wood-engraving / George Tute. -- Wood-engraving in America / John Randle -- A painter's approach to fine printing / Nicholas Parry -- Four fathers / Richard Kennedy --The printing of wood-engravings / Graham Williams -- John Strobel Fass, typographer and printer of leaves / John Ryder -- A way of life: the book designer as butler / John Trevitt -- Paper-making at Abbey Mill, 1947-1982 / Michael Chater -- The publications of the Taranman Gallery: a personal note / David Gould -- Christopher Hewett and Taranman: an afterword / Christopher Skelton -- Nag's head: a New Zealand private press / Roderick Cave -- The King Penguin series: an historical survey / Jane Harley -- Private Press books 1984: a review / David Chambers -- From William Morris to Henry Morris / David Butcher -- Fear and loathing in Brookston, Indiana / Hawley T. Tompkins.
Production date:
AD 1985
"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 39-2016
Primary reference Number: 208532
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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
