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Published by The Whittington Press, Risbury, Herefordshire, 1997
ISBN 10: 0002613093ISBN 13: 9780002613095
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Book
Board. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited. Edition of 850 copies. A bright crisp in near mint condition, in a bright dj which as a few small marks to the rear panel. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Published by The Whittington Press, Herefordshire, 1993
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Stiff card covers in excellent condition with a similar, bright dust jacket, with an accompanying loose flyer for Matrix 14 and News sheet, from an edition of 925. The private press annual celebration of the art of the book, including Epinal's Imagerie, The Pochoir Image Factory of France" by Peter Allen, "The Vine Press, 1957-1963" by John Dreyfus, James Mosely on "The Caslon Type Foundry in 1902," and other articles on paper, printing, Richard Wood and the Talbot Press, James Guthrie and the Pear Press and others Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Published by Whittington Press, Manor Farm, Gloucestershire, 1987
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited First Edition. Stiff printed paper wrappers in mylar protected jacket. (vii), 166, (2) pages. One of 960 copies set in 12-point Monotype Caslon and printed at the Whittington Press on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall Halbmatt papers. Colour plates and half-tones are printed at the Senecio Press. Wood-engravings are printed from the wood, and the line blocks are made by Keene Engraving. This being one of 850 copies bound in pattern paper designed for the Curwen Press by Enid Marx. Articles by Cleverdon on Morison and Gill, Dreyfus on French Resistance Printing, Carter on Victor Hammer, Cave on Golden Cockerel, Mortimer on Ornamented Types and others. A clean, tight copy of arguably the finest periodical of the book arts of the twentieth century Size: Small Quarto. Private Press.
Published by Whittington Press, Herefordshire, UK, 2003
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Whittington Press (illustrator). small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 206 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 800 copies, this being one of 715 trade copies. Matrix is the longest surviving and probably the last typographical journal to be printed by letterpress. It is an eclectic mix of fine printing, type design, and small press lore, forming a record of events and personalities whose memory would otherwise have died with their recorders. It is no exaggeration to say that in the future it will be impossible to research fine printing without reference to Matrix. This issue contains twenty-five articles and additional book reviews, including: "Fine Press and the Bookbinder" by Anthony Dowd, "The Forgotten Pleasure of Hand-Printing" by Miriam MacGregor, "Working with Olive Cook" by Lucy Archer, "My Concatenation of Types," by Michael Caine, "Latterday Letterpress Printer" by Dennis Gould, and "Aspects of Golden Gockerel" by Simon Lawrence. Illustrated throughout with many tipped-in specimens on special paper, engravings, photographs, color plates, etc. and a 1937 Matisse, "Woman's Head," as frontispiece. paper-covered boards, dust jacket.
Published by Whittington Press, Herefordshire, UK, 2004
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Whittington Press (illustrator). small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 169, (3) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 800 copies, this being one of 720 trade copies. Matrix is the longest surviving and probably the last typographical journal to be printed by letterpress. It is an eclectic mix of fine printing, type design, and small press lore, forming a record of events and personalities whose memory would otherwise have died with their recorders. It is no exaggeration to say that in the future it will be impossible to research fine printing without reference to Matrix. This issue contains twenty-three articles and additional book reviews, including: " The Politician and the Printer: Somerset de Chair and Christopher Sandford"by Roderick Cave, "Pochoir in the New Millennium" by Adela Spindler Roatcat, "Words? Who Needs 'Em?" by Jerry Kelly, and "On Printing" by Walt Whitman. Illustrated throughout with many tipped in specimens on special paper, engravings, photographs, color plates, etc., and a 1940 John O'Connor, "The Lonely Oak, West Country," as frontispiece. paper-covered boards, dust jacket.
Published by Whittington Press, Herefordshire, UK, 2002
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Whittington Press (illustrator). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers printed with T.M. Cleland's Caslon swash M, dust jacket illustrated with an engraving by Reg Boulton. (vi), 198 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 825 copies, this being one of 740 bound in stiff paper wrappers. Matrix is the longest surviving and probably the last typographical journal to be printed on letterpress. It is an eclectic mix of fine printing, type design, and small press lore, forming a record of events and personalities whose memory would otherwise have died with their recorders. It is no exaggeration to say that in the future it will be impossible to research fine printing without reference to Matrix. This rich and varied issue of Matrix contains twenty-two articles and additional book reviews, including: "New York Revisited" by Kenneth Auchincloss, "A Decade in the Writing, the Biography of Robert Gibbings" by Martin Andrews, "The Birth of a Book, Ravilious at War" by Simon Lawrence and Anne Ullmann, "Tiern, Creating a New Type" by Nicholas Parry, "The Woodcut Novels of Lynd Ward" by David A. Berona, "Ernest A. Lindner" by Nicolas Barker, "Looking for Cockerel Eggs" by Roderick Cave, "The Incunabula of the Rampant Lions Press" by Sebastian Carter, "Indian Toys" by Graham Moss and Kathy Whalen, "Henry Moore, Books and Friendship" by Alan Wilkinson, and "Gudrun Zapf von Hesse" by John Dreyfus, his last contribution to Matrix. Illustrated throughout with many tipped-in specimens on special paper, engravings, photographs. color plates, etc. and a 1930s pencil portrait of Robert Gibbings, by Harry Hicken, as frontispiece. A fine copy. stiff paper wrappers printed with T.M. Cleland's Caslon swash M, dust jacket illustrated with an engraving by Reg Boulton.
Published by Whittington Press, Manor Farm, Gloucestershire, 1988
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited First Edition. Stiff printed paper wrappers in mylar protected jacket. SIGNED by John and Rosalind Randle on copyright page. 191 pages; illustrated. One of 900 copies set in 12-point Monotype Caslon and printed at the Whittington Press on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall Halbmatt papers. Colour plates and half-tones are printed at the Senecio Press. Wood-engravings are printed from the wood, and the line blocks are made by Keene Engraving. This being one of 800 copies bound in pattern paper designed by Vance Gerry. Articles include Paractical Watercolour Stencilling of Illustrations by Vance Gerry; Pochoir at Curwen by David Butcher; Marbling as Book Illustration by Robin Heyeck; Chinese Decorated Papers by Tanya Schmoller; Golria Stuart: Cinderella at the Type Case by Ward Ritchie, and many others A clean, tight copy of arguably the finest periodical of the book arts of the twentieth century Size: Small Quarto. Signed. Private Press.
Published by Whittington Press, Manor Farm, Gloucestershire, 1991
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Wraps. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited First Edition. Printed stiff paper wrappers in mylar protected dust-jacket. 248 pages; illustrated with 48 color plates, tip-ins which include marbling, hand-printed wallpaper, and a rare piece of Fijian Tapa paper, 12 pages of wood-engravings (including 6, 3-colour engravings). SIGNED by John and Rosalind Randle on copyright page. This edition of 955 copies is set in 12-point Caslon, Fournier and Romulus and 11-point Bell, and printed at Whittington on Sommerville, Zerkall and Tosa Butten papers. The plates are printed at CTD printers, and the line blocks made by Blinford Graphics. Contributions include, Drefus on the Reconstruction of the Lecture Given by Emery Walker on 15 November, 1888; Stephenson on Setting up a Monotype Workshop; Krimpen on Preparing Designs for Monotype; Stone on Compton Marbling and many others. A clean tight copy of arguably the finest periodical of the book arts of the twentieth century Size: Small Quarto. Signed. Private Press.
Published by The Whittington Press, Gloucestershire, 1987
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Quarter blue morocco and patterned paper covered boards in bright condition housed in a matching slipcase with an accompanying folder containing a cassette recording of a talk by Stanley Morison on Eric Gill, the dust jacket in a sleeve at the rear. Number 103 from the special edition of just 110. Articles by Cleverdon on Morison and Gill, Dreyfus on French Resistance Printing, Carter on Victor Hammer, Cave on Golden Cockerel, Mortimer on Ornamented Types and others. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed.
Published by The Whittington Press, Gloucestershire, 1987
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Quarter blue morocco and patterned paper covered boards in bright condition housed in a matching slipcase with an accompanying folder containing a cassette recording of a talk by Stanley Morison on Eric Gill, the dust jacket in a sleeve at the rear. Number 105 from the special edition of just 110. Articles by Cleverdon on Morison and Gill, Dreyfus on French Resistance Printing, Carter on Victor Hammer, Cave on Golden Cockerel, Mortimer on Ornamented Types and others. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed.
Published by The Whittington Press, Gloucestershire, 1987
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Quarter blue morocco and patterned paper covered boards in bright condition housed in a matching slipcase with an accompanying folder containing a cassette recording of a talk by Stanley Morison on Eric Gill, the dust jacket in a sleeve at the rear. Number 61 from the special edition of just 110, this one signed by both John and Rosalind Randle. Articles by Cleverdon on Morison and Gill, Dreyfus on French Resistance Printing, Carter on Victor Hammer, Cave on Golden Cockerel, Mortimer on Ornamented Types and others. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed.
Published by The Whittington Press, Gloucestershire, 1986
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Quarter green morocco and marbled paper covered boards in bright condition, housed in a matching slipcase, flyer for Matrix 7 inserted, dust jacket in a sleeve at the rear, number 84 from the special edition of just 100. The private press annual celebration of the art of the book. Articles include: [1] Llewelyn & Theodore, by Robert Gibbings; [2] From County Cork to Chiswick & Cockerel: Roderick Cave; [3] Some Fond Reminiscences of a Boy Printer at the Castle Press: Vance Gerry; [4] The Early Years of the Double Crown Club: John Dreyfus; [5] 'Seems to See with his Fingers': the Printing of Joyce's 'Ulysses': Glenn Storhaug; [6] Patrick Reagh, Printer: Scott Freutel; [7] Weeds in my Garden: Miriam Macgregor; [8] Paper-chasing with Hans: Tanya Schmoller; [9] Portrait of the Wood-engraver in Middle Age: Peter Forster; [10] Paper as an Art Form: Maureen Richadson; [11] Private Presses in the John Johnson Collection: Anne Flavell; [12] John Johnson: Enid Marx; [13] By the Look of it: Robert Kelly; [14] 'And it Sold the Muffins', Reflections on Jobbing Printing: Sebastian Carter; [15] Fine Printing in California & England: the Clark Library Collection: John Bidwell; [16] Memories of T. E. Lawrence & Gregynog: Michael Hutchins; [17] On Hieroglyphic Types: David Wishart; [18] Woodcut Pattern Papers, & the Engraved Work of John DePol: Renee I. Weber; [18] 'Congeniality' in the Typography of Books: Brooke Crutchley; [19] The Ballad of Paul Hayden Duensing: Timothy Hawley; [20] A Collaboration: Letters between John O'Connor & Christopher Dandford: Roderick Cave; [21] Further Thoughts on the Literature of Letterpress Printing: Geoffrey Wakeman; [23] 'The Most Underrated of Typographers': Ruari McLean; [24] Private Press Books 1985, a Review: David Chambers; [25] Hans Schmoller's Contributions to Matrix: John Randle; [26] Two Poems: Philip Gallo Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Published by The Whittington Press, Gloucestershire, 1986
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Quarter green morocco and marbled paper covered boards in bright condition, the spine very slightly sunned, housed in a matching slipcase, prospectus for Wallpapers Printed At The Curwen Press loosely inserted, dust jacket in a sleeve at the rear, number 41 from the special edition of just 100. The private press annual celebration of the art of the book. Articles include: [1] Llewelyn & Theodore, by Robert Gibbings; [2] From County Cork to Chiswick & Cockerel: Roderick Cave; [3] Some Fond Reminiscences of a Boy Printer at the Castle Press: Vance Gerry; [4] The Early Years of the Double Crown Club: John Dreyfus; [5] 'Seems to See with his Fingers': the Printing of Joyce's 'Ulysses': Glenn Storhaug; [6] Patrick Reagh, Printer: Scott Freutel; [7] Weeds in my Garden: Miriam Macgregor; [8] Paper-chasing with Hans: Tanya Schmoller; [9] Portrait of the Wood-engraver in Middle Age: Peter Forster; [10] Paper as an Art Form: Maureen Richadson; [11] Private Presses in the John Johnson Collection: Anne Flavell; [12] John Johnson: Enid Marx; [13] By the Look of it: Robert Kelly; [14] 'And it Sold the Muffins', Reflections on Jobbing Printing: Sebastian Carter; [15] Fine Printing in California & England: the Clark Library Collection: John Bidwell; [16] Memories of T. E. Lawrence & Gregynog: Michael Hutchins; [17] On Hieroglyphic Types: David Wishart; [18] Woodcut Pattern Papers, & the Engraved Work of John DePol: Renee I. Weber; [18] 'Congeniality' in the Typography of Books: Brooke Crutchley; [19] The Ballad of Paul Hayden Duensing: Timothy Hawley; [20] A Collaboration: Letters between John O'Connor & Christopher Dandford: Roderick Cave; [21] Further Thoughts on the Literature of Letterpress Printing: Geoffrey Wakeman; [23] 'The Most Underrated of Typographers': Ruari McLean; [24] Private Press Books 1985, a Review: David Chambers; [25] Hans Schmoller's Contributions to Matrix: John Randle; [26] Two Poems: Philip Gallo Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Published by The Whittington Press, Gloucestershire, 1984
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Quarter orange morocco and patterned paper covered boards in bright condition, housed in a matching slipcase, number 17 from the special edition of just 65, the dust jacket in a sleeve at the rear. The private press annual celebration of the art of the book. Contributions include: "Otley And The Wharfedale Printing Press"; David Butcher "Chinese Papercuts"; Harold Berliner "The Monotype In America"; L.M. Newman "Artist And Printer ". One of the scarce Matrix specials Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.