Matrix Randle John (7 results)

FIRST EDITION, lg.8vo., pp.xx(4)374 + colophon; illustrations & facsimiles in colour & half-tone throughout; new in dust-wrapper. A fine anthology from the first 20 years of Matrix, with suitably impressive list of contributors; designed by Jerry Kelly. Published at £45, we have a small number copies at reduced price. We are also able to offer many issues of Matrix in standard & deluxe format. Please ask for details. WHITTINGTON PRESS MATRIX WRAPPER Matrix Whittington Private Press.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Text set in Caslon. One of 630 (700) copies printed on Sommerville laid paper and sewn and glued into card covers and printed orange paper wrappers. A fine copy. Principal contents: The Curwen Story, by Alan Powers; The Amate Press and Farewell to True Bookshops, by James Fergusson; Leipzig Rambling, by Jerry Cinamon; Letters from Rene, by Michael Richey; Stern: a New Metal Type, by Jim Rimmer.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Text set in Caslon. One of 850 (955) copies printed on Sommerville paper, sewn and glued into printed card covers and printed paper wrappers. A fine copy. Major articles include: Twentieth-Century Punchcutters, by John A. Lane; Illustrations of Typefounding engraved for the 'Description des Arts et Metiers', by James Mosley; On Preparing Design for Monotype Faces, by Jan Van Krimpen;

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Text set in Caslon. One of 835 (925) copies printed on Sommerville and Zerkall papers, sewn and glued into printed card covers and printed paper wrappers. A fine copy. Major articles include: A Type for All Seasons, by Alan Dodson; Les Images d'Epinal, by Peter Allen; The Vine Press, 157-1963, by John Dreyfus; The Caslon Type Foundry in 1902, by James Mosley; A Printer's dilemma, by Sebastian Carter; The Oxford University Press and Robert Proctor's Greek Types, by J.F. Coakley.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Text set in Caslon, Poliphilus, Blado, Perpetua and Fell and printed on Sommerville, Zerkall and Hahnemuhle papers. One of 855 (950) copies bound in card covers and printed wrappers. Photographs and specimens reproduced by offset lithography by CTD Printers and the Regency Press, Cheltenham. A fine copy. Articles include: Robin Kinross 'Outsiders Chasing Dreams: Guido Morris and Anthony Froshaug'; William Peterson, Sydney Cockerell and the Kelmscott Press; Brian Hanscomb, From Croxley Moor to Bodmin Moor; Martin Andrews, Sweet Cork of Thee, and the Popular Books of Robert Gibbings; Ward Ritchie, Paul Landacre and the Ward Ritchie Press; Roderick Cave, The Making of The [Golden Cockerel] Mabinogion, 1944-8.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Text set in Monotype Caslon. 925 copies printed on Sommerville and Zerkall papers of which this is one of 825 bound in card covers with printed paper covers. A fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Text set in Caslon and Bell. One of (745) 825 copies printed on Sommerville, Zerkall & Hahnemuhle papers, sewn and glued into printed card covers and printed paper wrappers. Photographs and specimens reproduced by offset lithography by Syon Print and the Premiere Press. Original glacine. A fine copy. Major articles include: The correspondence of D.B. Updike & T.M. Cleland; Ann Baer 'Frank Sidgwick's Diary'; Richard-Gabriel Rummonds 'The Making of the Borges Book in Verona'; Dan Carr 'Typographic Sculture'; Hal Bishop Freda Tremlett, the Ruskin School & Farrago.