Current Location: In storage
Titles
Matrix 16 : a review for printers and bibliophiles
Maker(s)
Publisher:
Whittington Press
Entities
Categories
Description
8], 203, [5] p., [36] p. of plates : ill., facsims., plates, ports., samples ; 29 cm.
Specimens are mounted on pages included in the page count.
Edition of 925 copies.
Some ill., photographs and samples are tipped in.
Incomplete Contents: The Hammersmith hot-house: private presses beside the Thames / John Dreyfus -- Engraving for The periodical / Diana Bloomfield -- Afterword: The periodical / John Bell -- Making a visible spirit: cutting the regulus punches by hand / Dan Carr -- Cave paper / Bridget O'Malley and Amanda Degener -- Borders and swelled rules designed by Edward Bawden for the Oxford University Press / Michael Johnson -- Weather bird and Disney / Vance Gerry -- The wood engravings of Joan Hassall / Ruari McLean -- David Kindersley: the compiling of a biography / Lottie Hoare -- Ribbons ... / Theo Rehak -- Eric and Tirzah Ravilious and the Golden Cockerel Press / Joanna Selborne -- The Paris exhibition of 1937 / Alan Powers -- The story of a book: illustrations by Henri Matisse for Florilège des Amours de Ronsard / Albert Skira -- Wood-engraving in Sweden / Hugh MacPherson -- Peggy Angus and her wallpapers / Olive Cook -- A cordial correspondence: collaboration between Dard Hunter and Will Ransom, 1923-5 / Roderick Cave -- The exploded columbian and Hercules / John Craig -- Mort de Gutenberg: the seven volumes of book design and production, 1958-64 / Bernard Roberts -- Student days at the R.C.A. / Enid Marx -- Ken Campbell: an artist's text and image / David Chambers -- Cyril W. Beaumont and the Ballets Russes: the printer at the Sign of the Harlequin's Bat / Adela Spindler Roatcap -- Merle Armitage / Ward Ritchie -- Private press books 1995: a review / David Chambers -- Book reviews / Simon Lawrence, Paul Hayden Duensing, John Dreyfus and John Randle -- A collector recollects / Lionel Dakers -- Typomasochism.
Place(s) associated
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Lower Marston
⪼ Herefordshire
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(2016)
by
Stevenson, Robin
Stevenson, Wendy
Dating
Production date:
AD 1996
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 50-2016
Primary reference Number: 208640
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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
