Matrix 9 : a review for printers and bibliophiles
Publisher: Whittington Press
[6], 200, [2] pages (the last page blank), [54] pages of plates : illustrations (some color, some folded, some mounted), facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm
"Number nine Winter 1989."
"This edition of 925 copies is set in 12-point Monotype Caslon and printed at Whittington Press on Sommerville Laid, Hahnemü̈̈hle and Zerkall papers. The half-tones are printed as tritones at CTD Printers, except for those between pp. 112-21 which are printed at the Senecio Press, and the line blocks are made by Keene Engraving. 820 copies are bound in stiff covers and 105 copies are quarter-bound in Oasis leather and paper marbled by Colleen Gryspeerdt and include 'A Letter to Colette' bound in the same style as the original in the Clark Library, Los Angeles. Edited by John & Rosalind Randle, & bound by The Fine Bindery. August 1989"--Page [4] prelim.
Contents:The four fathers of Richard Kennedy / John Randle -- Thoughts on wood / Robert Gibbings -- Reminiscences of Albert Cooper, pressman at the Golden Cockerel Press / Sue Walker and Martin Andrews -- Notes on the printing methods of the Golden Cockerel Press / A.C. Cooper (pressman 1922-1932) with an introduction by Patience Empson -- My career in medicine / Robert Gibbings -- Gibbings and Gill : arcady in Berkshire / Fiona MacCarthy -- Some correspondence between Gibbings and Thomas Balston / ed. John Dreyfus -- The Robert Gibbings Collection in Reading University Library / Michael Bott -- Robert Gibbings and the University of Reading / Michael Bott and Martin Andrews -- Robert Gibbings and the Willow / Sue Walker and Martin Andrews -- Remembering Stanley Morison / Brooke Crutchley and David McKitterick -- Word and print at the Red Hen Press / Shirley Jones -- The Wrington Warfedale / Bernard Seward -- A collection of printers' flowers / Mark Arman -- A maverick in a printing office / Ward Ritchie, Gloria Stuart, and D'Ambrosio -- Stanley Morison and Jan van Krimpen : a survey of their correspondence, part 2 1933-40 / ed. Sebastian Carter -- From metal type to digital letterforms : a straightforward transition for Indian scripts? / Fiona Ross -- The printing of the Alice engravings / Jonathan Stephenson -- The making of the Vigil of Venus : letters from John Buckland Wright to Christopher Sandford, 1937-1939 / ed. Roderick Cave -- Jan Tschichold and Chinese woodblock printing / Charles Antin -- The Rylands private press collection / D.W. Riley -- Book review -- Private press books 1988 : a review / David Chambers -- 'Chrissakes, dummy!' / Patrick Reagh.
Method of acquisition: Given (2016) by Stevenson, Robin Stevenson, Wendy
Production date: AD 1989
"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 43-2016
Primary reference Number: 208633
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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