Matrix 8 : a review for printers and bibliophiles
Publisher: Whittington Press
[6], 191, [1] pages (the last page blank), [44] pages of plates : illustrations (some color, some folded, some mounted), facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm
"This edition of 900 copies is set in 12-point Monotype Caslon and printed at the Whittington Press on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall Halbmatt papers. The colour plates and half-tones are printed at the Senecio Press. The wood-engravings are printed from the wood, and the line blocks are made by Keene Engraving. 800 copies are bound in a pattern paper designed by Vance Gerry, and 100 copies are quarter-bound in leather and paper marbled by Colleen Gryspeerdt and include a separate set of the broadsheets. Edited by John & Rosalind Randle, & bound by The Fine Bindery. September 1988"--Page [4] prelim.
Contents: Douglas Cleverdon : bookselling in Bristol, 1925-39 / Michael Taylor -- Types for books at Cambridge, 1923-45 / Brooke Crutchley -- Pochoir : practical watercolour stencilling of illustrations & designs for books etc / Vance Gerry -- Pochoir at Curwen : the artists and their books / David Butcher -- How far the abracadabra / Philip Gallo -- Cutting a new music type / Stan Nelson -- 'A restrained but full-blooded eroticism' : letters from John Buckland Wright to Christopher Sandford, 1937-1939 / ed. Roderick Cave -- From 'Mr Lawrence' to 'Stanley', from 'Mr Er-um' to 'Peter' / Peter Forster -- A painter's approach to wood-engraving / Howard Phipps -- Typographic collections at the Smithsonian / Elizabeth Harris -- Marbling as book illustration / Robin Heyeck -- Chinese decorated papers / Tanya Schmoller -- In the Golden Cockerel's footprints / Christopher Skelton -- Wood-engraving then and now / Simon Brett -- Gloria Stuart : cinderella at the type case / Ward Ritchie -- Stanley Morison and Jan van Krimpen : a survey of their correspondence, part 1, 1926-32s / ed. Sebastian Carter -- A man from the past / Richard Kennedy -- The printing of mathematics / David Wishart -- Designing for the enlightened publisher / George Mackie -- Unpublished illustrations by Charles Mozley for James Joyce's Ulysses, 1960 / John Ryder -- Motif 1-13 (1958-67) / Ruari McLean -- The Fancy Paper Company / Tanya Schmoller -- Edward Bawden's bird's nest / David McKitterick -- Private press books 1987 : a review / David Chambers -- Printing on the Normandy Beach-Head / Mark Arman.
Method of acquisition: Given (2016) by Stevenson, Robin Stevenson, Wendy
Production date: AD 1988
"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 42-2016
Primary reference Number: 208587
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Manuscripts and Printed Books
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