Matrix 15 : a review for printers and bibliophiles: PB 49-2016

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Matrix 15 : a review for printers and bibliophiles

Maker(s)

Entities

Journal (periodical)

Description

[6], 234, [2] pages : illustrations, facsimiles, plates ; 29 cm
Specimens are mounted on pages included in the page count.
Edition of 975 copies.

Incomplete Contents: Outsiders chasing dreams: Guido Morris and Anthony Froshaug / Robin Kinross -- Letters and things: the wood-engraved initials of Eric Gill / Sebastian Carter -- William Morris: the building of a book / Fiona MacCarthy -- Meadows ... / Theo Rehak -- Sydney Cockerell and the Kelmscott Press / William S. Peterson -- Typography and parsons / Ruari McLean -- The compositor as publisher / Wolfgang Tiessen -- From Croxley Moor to Bodmin Moor / Brian Hanscomb -- Sweet cork of thee, and the popular books of Robert Gibbings / Martin Andrews -- Paper, papyrus and pseudo-papyrus / Maureen and Brian Richardson -- Paul Landacre and the Ward Ritchie Press / Ward Ritchie -- A portrait of a press / R.W. Chapman -- Artists' impressions / Susan Allix -- Two birds with one stone / Henry Morris -- John Dreyfus: into print / David McKitterick -- Evelyn Waugh and the private press world / Richard Emeny -- Fernard Baudin and l'Effet Gutenberg / John Dreyfus -- Design and print in the '30s / Enid Marx -- Edward Johnston and letter spacing / Colin Banks -- The making of The mabinogion, 1944-8: some letters between Christopher Sandford, Gwyn Jones and Dorothea Braby / Roderick Cave -- An Edwardian printer's progress / Raymond Brown -- Private press books 1994: a review / David Chambers -- Book reviews / Peter Foden, David Esslemont and David Butcher -- Index to Matrix 11-15 / David Butcher

Place(s) associated

Lower Marston ⪼ Herefordshire

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Production date: AD 1995

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.