Current Location: In storage
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Matrix 14 : a review for printers and bibliophiles
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Whittington Press
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[6], 236, [2] pages (the last page blank), [70] pages of plates : illustrations (some color, some mounted), folded facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm
"This edition of 975 copies is set in Caslon, Centaur and Cochin types and printed at Whittington on Sommerville Laid, Zerkall mould-made and Americana papers. The colour and duotone plates are printed by CTD Printers, the line blocks are made by Blinford Graphics, and the plates following pp. 24, 40, 98 and 168 are printed by the Aldine Press. 880 copies are bound in stiff covers and 95 copies are quarter-bound in Oasis leather and paper marbled by Colleen Gryspeerdt, and include a separately bound book of wood-engravings for Virgil's Georgics by Edward Craig. Bound by the Fine Bindery and edited by John & Rosalind Randle. July 1994"--Page [4] prelim.
Contents: One day in Alpignano : a visit to Alberto Tallone Editore / Roderick Cave -- Edward Anthony Craig, wood-engraver / L.M. Newman -- Eric Ravilious and the Golden Cockerel Press : correspondence with Robert Gibbings, part one: selected letters 1926-1929 / ed. Joanna Selborne -- Stanley Morison's handwriting / Ruari McLean -- The cure / Mike Hudson -- Letters to a Ditchling disciple / Joanna Jamieson -- An unusual paper specimen book / Bernard Roberts -- The Jean Berte process of watercolour printing / Jean-Claude Peissel -- Work that remained in progress / David Elyan -- A remarkable plaquette from Draeger Freres / John Dreyfus -- Restoring Ullmer's Albion / John Craig -- Techniques and themes / J.G. Lubbock -- The illustrated books of J.G. Lubbock : a bibliography and catalogue raisonne / compiled by David Butcher and J.G. Lubbock -- Sydney Cockerell and the Kelmscott Press / William S. Peterson -- The wet grass of bookishness : Hubert J. Foss as book designer / Peter Foden and Paul W. Nash -- Hieratic types / David Wishart -- Margaret Wells and Leon Underwood / Linda Holmes -- The leaf in printing / David Bethel -- Roundel trouble / Tanya Schmoller -- Patterned papers in the Insel-Bucherei / Patrick Fox -- A hard road to hoe : some letters between James Guthrie and Will Ransom, 1920-1930 / ed. Roderick Cave -- Stairway to a craft / Knowler G. Edmonds -- Private Press Books 1993 : a review / David Chalmers -- Book reviews -- Everyman in a barn : a postscript / Joanna Selborne.
Production date:
AD 1994
"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.
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paper
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Accession number: PB 48-2016
Primary reference Number: 208638
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Created: Monday 25 April 2016
Updated: Monday 30 September 2019
Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
