Matrix 7 : a review for printers and bibliophiles
Publisher: Whittington Press
[5], 166, [1] pages, [63] pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 29 cm
Some specimens are mounted on pages included in page count and some are tipped in.
An edition of 960 copies
Contents: My grandfather, Stanley Thomas Evans Lawrence / S. Lawrence --Stanley Morison on Eric Gill / D. Cleverdon -- A Moroccan diary / E. Ellis --Eric Gill's typography examined / C. Skelton -- French resistance printing / J. Dreyfus -- Victor Hammer / S. Carter -- Adam & Eve & Golden Cockerel / R. Cave -- Ornamented types, the making of the edition / I. Mortimer -- Edward Gordon Craig, letters concerning On the art of the theatre / E. Thompson -- Order of work / J. Craig -- An unexpected legacy, and its contribution to early Indian typography / F. Ross and G. Shaw -- On the shape of books / B. Crutchley -- A medley of printers past / W. Ritchie -- Annie Newman at the ABA -- Los Angeles printers, some recent books about them / V. Gerry -- Enid Marx RDI, designer and wood-engraver / M. Taylor -- The little gallery / E. Marx -- Letters from a papermaker's husband / B. Richardson -- The Workshop Press, Thaxted / M. Arman -- A note on school presses / P. Morgan -- Fanfares, amazons, and narrow-boats / R. Cave -- George Wiggall / J. Randle -- Harry Carter / N. Carrington -- Private press books, 1986, a review / D. Chambers -- ʻA shout to the elatedʼ, twentieth-century types and designers / D. Butcher -- A bird's eye view of the Whittington Press / J. Randle -- Two poems / P. Gallo.
Method of acquisition: Given (2016) by Stevenson, Robin Stevenson, Wendy
Production date: AD 1987
"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.
Support composed of paper
Accession number: PB 41-2016
Primary reference Number: 208583
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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