Matrix 17 : a review for printers and bibliophiles
Publisher: Whittington Press
195 pages, [50] pages of plates (some color) : illustrations ; 29 cm
Edition of 850 copies.
Incomplete Contents: Tye typographical importance of Maximilien Vox / John Dreyfus -- Washi tour, Japan / Maureen Richardson -- Punch-cutting and printing Ungut & Stanislaus / Richard Årlin -- The Southwold Columbian / Olive Cook -- The compleat Caslon / Justin Howes -- Joan Ellis: a lost engraver from the Underwood school / Hal Bishop -- Bowne & Co., stationers / Barbara Henry -- Caslon -- a lively survival / Alan Dodson -- The dust-jacket designs of Hermann Zapf / Jerry Kelly -- Two Oxford bible types / Paul Luna -- The Ratdolt-Hammer synthesis / Theo Rehak -- Bishop Fell's overlooked bequest in the OUP Museum / Peter Foden -- The digitised Golden Cockerel / Sebastian Carter -- Some typographical journals, 1900-1939 / Ruari McLean -- Saving face: the ITC Golden Cockerel type / Roderick Cave -- Dada, what did you do in the Great War? / Mike Hudson -- Folio, a Cockerel's Fledgling / Roderick Cave -- El Lissitzky 1914-1924: 'Prouns' to 'Die Kunstismen' / Adela Spindler Roatcap -- Bruce Rogers and the Harvard University Press: some less-known work / J.F. Coakley -- Private press books 1996: a review / David Chambers -- Portraits of presses / John Randle -- Book reviews / Dan Carr, John O'Connor, John Dreyfus, David Butcher, Simon Lawrence, David Esslemont -- The book collection of Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst at Dartington Hall / Lottie Hoare.
Method of acquisition: Given (2016) by Stevenson, Robin Stevenson, Wendy
Production date: AD 1997
"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 51-2016
Primary reference Number: 208641
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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