Matrix 18 : a review for printers and bibliophiles
Publisher: Whittington Press
[8], 236, [4] p., [42] leaves of plates : ill., facsims., plates, ports., samples ; 29 cm.
Specimens are mounted on pages included in the page count.
Edition of 825 copies.
Some ill., photographs and samples are tipped in.
Incomplete Contents:Typographer and comp / Michael Clapham -- Jan Tschichold, an afterword / Ruari McLean -- Ben Nicholson and printing / Alan Powers -- LA type / Wm Erik Voss -- The fanfare press / David McKitterick -- Photography and the visual arts / Olive Cook -- Bruce Rogers and The rime of the ancient mariner / Michael Johnson -- Rachel Reckitt: letters from the blitz / Hal Bishop -- Characters in search of an author / Brian Webb -- Memories of Joseph Thorp / Jonah Jones -- Gravure at Thames and Hudson / Ian Mackenzie-Kerr -- Zodiaque and heliogravure / Sheila HoĢnigsberg -- Forging links at the Latin Press: some letters between Guido Morris and Will Ransom / Roderick Cave -- My first years as a printer / Guido Morris -- Researching the revival of the Fell types / Martyn Ould and Martyn Thomas -- An English printer in Paris / Michael Caine -- The significance of sixteen-point body / Theo Rehak -- A curious view of book design at the University Printing House in Cambridge, 1939-56 / John Dreyfus -- The papermaking girls of the Maqattam garbage settlement / Maureen Richardson -- From Pink order to Blue label / Michael Black -- Dinner with the Wangs: ceremonial papers of the Chinese, part 3 / Roderick Cave -- Type for books, and books for type / Sebastian Carter -- A sentimental typographic journey / Paul Hayden Duensing -- The ultimate type specimen book / Roy Millington -- Enid Marx, R.D.I. / Alan Powers -- Edward Craig / John Randle -- Rewriting history? Observations on the centenary issue of The monotype recorder / Dan Carr -- Private press book 1997: a review / David Chambers -- Book reviews.
Method of acquisition: Given (2016) by Stevenson, Robin Stevenson, Wendy
Production date: AD 1998
"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 52-2016
Primary reference Number: 208642
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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