Matrix 11 : a review for printers and bibliophiles
Publisher: Whittington Press
[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.
Method of acquisition: Given (2016) by Stevenson, Robin Stevenson, Wendy
Production date: AD 1991
"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 45-2016
Primary reference Number: 208635
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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