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The Fell Imperial Quarto Book of Common Prayer: An Account of its Production [WITH EXTRA ORIGINAL SHEET]
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Whittington Press, Risbury, Herefordshire, 1998
ISBN 10: 1854280449
ISBN 13: 9781854280442
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Seller: Woodbridge Rare Books, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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39x28cm, 42pp. With four pages from the Oxford University Press Prayerbook of 1913 bound-in. Copy 72 of 150 (200), half bound in orange buckram and paper printed with a variety of Fell ornaments over boards, gilt titling to spine, in a brown paper-covered slipcase with cloth to top and bottom edges, together with a further four pages of the original Prayerbook printed in black and red 4-up to recto and verso of an intact folio sheet. An account of the discovery and reconstruction of a monumental and hitherto forgotten Book of Common Prayer, commenced by the Oxford University Press in 1913. This book, and the research behind it, was prompted by unbound sheets of the book coming to light during the closure of the OUP's Printing House in 1989. A very substantial and popular production from Whittington. This copy is distinguished by the extra folio sheet, as used in the 50 specially-bound copies of the book which contained eight original pages in total. Fine, in a Fine slipcase, the extra sheet Near Fine (a very small brown stain to the first page). Seller Inventory # W2400
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The Fell Imperial Quarto Book of Common Prayer: An Account of Its Production. LIMITED EDITION: # vii of 50 copies
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The Whittington Press, Rigby, 1998
ISBN 10: 1854280449
ISBN 13: 9781854280442
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First Edition
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
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Hardback. Condition: Fine. 1st edn. ~Half red Oasis goatskin leather, gilt lettering to spine. Pale orange-red laid paper to boards, printed in red with a selection of Fell ornaments. With original slipcase, red buckram to base and top and brown laid paper to sides and spine. Minor abrasion (5cm) to paper at top rear of slipcase. Folio (27.5 x 38.6cm). Top edges trimmed and coloured brown, other edges deckled. Limited edition: one of an edition of 200 copies, cast in 18-point Caslon and printed at Whittington on Zerkall mould-made paper, of which 50 copies were given this half leather binding and include 8 pages from the 1913 Prayerbook that is the subject of the volume. This is copy no. vii. Printed in red & black throughout. Includes 8pp. from the 1913 BCP, as called for, as well as facsimile of the 1913 Calendar for January and title page, and 4pp. proofs of pages printed at Whittington in 1989. When the Oxford University Press closed down its Printing House in 1989, a stack of printed quires was rescued from amongst the general dispersal. The sheets, from an otherwise unknown 1913 edition of the BCP printed in 17th-century Fell type, 'were patently too fine to be destroyed, and yet they were incomplete as books' (p. 4). As such, the Whittington Press was approached to print the missing pages which would allow production of ten complete copies. This is an account of the production of these ten copies and of the archivist Peter Foden's investigation of the circumstances behind the printing of the 1913 quires, 'shining examples of traditional typographic craftsmanship' (p. 39). A beautifully produced volume that stands both as a monument to the OUP Printing House and the wider tradition of fine press printing, and as an account of a successful piece of bibliographic and typographic detective work. One of 50 copies only of this delux limited edition. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request. Size: 12, (2), 13-32, (8), 40, (4), 41-44, (1)pp. Binding sound, text unmarked. Seller Inventory # GG3155
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