Matrix 12 : a review for printers and bibliophiles
Publisher: Whittington Press
222 pages, [28] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimile ; 29 cm
One of 825 copies bound in stiff covers of a total edition of 925 copies. Printed November 1992.
Specimens are mounted on pages included in the page count.
Contents: The library of Emery Walker / William S. Peterson -- The Fleece press / Simon Lawrence -- Memories of Paul and John Nash / Ronald Blythe -- Eric Gill and the mantle of William Morris / Fiona MacCarthy -- Wrenching times -- memories of Gregynog / Gaylord Schanilec -- Ceremonial papers of the Chinese, part one / Roderick Cave -- 'A nice young man' -- Viscount Carlow and the Corvinus Press / A.J. Flavell and Paul W. Nash -- The Gutenberg exhibition at Cambridge, 1940 / Brooke Crutchley -- Dennis Cohen and the Cresset Press / John Dreyfus -- Harry Gage-Cole, Pressman, 1877-1943 / L.M. Newman -- American iron hand presses / John Randle -- Reynolds' janitor / James Stourton -- The types of Jan van Krimpen / Sebastian Carter -- The origins of Union Pearl / John A. Lane -- Chiyogami / Tanya Schmoller -- The Cossar Press / Bernard J. Seward -- False starts and an altercation of Irishmen / Roderick Cave -- The Colum Cille Irish type / Dermot McGuinne -- The bibliography of the Saint Dominic's Press / Michael Taylor -- Fairfax Hall and the Stourton Press / James Stourton --The impossible takes longer - compiling a bibliography of the Stanbrook Abbey Press / David Butcher -- Private press books 1991 : a review / David Chambers -- Gogmagog and Morris Cox / Roderick Cave -- Book reviews / David Esslemont, Sue Band, John Randle -- Journeyman / Walter Partridge -- Punchcutting by hand : a postscript / Steven Tuohy -- Chris Skelton and Alan Hancox / John Randle -- Books printed by, or for, the Corvinus Press -- Addenda to 'Twentieth-Century punchcutters'.
Method of acquisition: Given (2016) by Stevenson, Robin Stevenson, Wendy
Production date: AD 1992
"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 46-2016
Primary reference Number: 208636
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
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Manuscripts and Printed Books
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