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Matrix 11 : a review for printers and bibliophiles: PB 45-2016

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Matrix 11 : a review for printers and bibliophiles

Maker(s)

Publisher: Whittington Press

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Description

[6], 207 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, folded illustrations ; 29 cm
One of 955 copies printed September 1991.
Specimens are mounted on pages included in the page count.

Incomplete Contents: Reynolds stone and Cambridge / Brooke Crutchley -- Twentieth-century punchcutters / John A. Lane -- PUnchcutting by hand: a view over the shoulder of Harry Carter / Steven Tuohy -- A reconstruction of the lecture given by Emery Walker on 15 November 1888 / John Dreyfus -- The compulsive printer of Portage, Indiana / Joseph D'Ambrosio -- Illustrations of typefounding engraved for the 'Description des arts et métiers' of the Académie Royale des Sciences, Paris, 1694 to c. 1700 / James Mosley -- Patterns from lino / Marthe Armitage -- Notes on Cnaals, barges and people / John O'Connor -- Setting up a monotype workshop / Jonathan Stephenson -- Three artists at Haslewood books / Peter Tucker -- With beam and beetle: the bark cloth of the Pacific / Roderick Cave and Jo Torr -- Stanley Morison and Jan van Krimpen, a survey of their coorespondence / Sebastian Carter -- On preparing designs for monotype faces / Jan van Krimpen -- Twins / John O'Connor -- Trifling with typography / Desmond Flower -- Skelton's press and the September Press / Christopher Skelton -- Compton marbling / Solveig Stone -- Christmas cards old and new / Enid Marx -- Some printers of the 1950s and 60s / Mark Arman -- Gwenda Morgan, 1908-1991 / John Randle -- Joseph Blumenthal, 1897-1990 / Jerry Kelly.

Place(s) associated

  • Lower Marston ⪼ Herefordshire

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: AD 1991

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 45-2016
Primary reference Number: 208635
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Audit data

Created: Monday 25 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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