Randle John Compiler (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Full green oasis leather, small thick folio, portfolio, solander case, (4), 179, (86) pages. Illustrated with signed proof prints, wood engravings, line drawings, paper samples, etc., with many mounted specimens. Copy XVI (the "B" Deluxe edition), one of 28 copies of a total of 380 copies printed from Caslon type on Zerkall mould-made paper, with Whittington marbled endpapers and a separate portfolio of Press ephemera comprising 37 additional specimens. Extensive bibliography for the period 1982-1993 by David Butcher and with notes by the printer and publisher John Randle. A checklist of the titles printed between 1972-1981 is included as an appendix. A fine copy in a better than very good solander case with trivial signs of use and with a leather gilt spine.

The broadsides include items from the Press's collection of handmade papers acquired from the Oxford University Press, and four items assembled by Erik Voss. They include marbled paper samples for the Press of Colleen Gryspeerdt a hand-colored illustration by Carmen Voss, a signed Miriam Macgregor wood-engraving, and three blocks designed for Richard Kennedy's A Boy a the Hogarth Press, which are printed here for the first time. Quarto. [12], 125, [3] pp. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper in a variety of faces and colors. Displays over twenty types. Woodcut illustrations by Richard Kennedy, Miriam Macgregor, Gwenda Morgan, Hellmuth Weissenborn and others. Three tipped in handmade paper samples. Quarter-bound in Nigerian Goatskin over patterned boards. This is one of fifty-five copies in this special binding, containing a separate portfolio of broadsides of types and ornaments. A few minor spots to spines, otherwise a fine copy in slipcase. One of fifty-five copies of this special edition, out of a total edition of 530 copies.

Pp. [iv]+viii+126(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), printed in yellow, brown & black in a variety of typefaces and sizes, with 3 hand-tipped specimen sheets and numerous text illustrations (several full page), appendix; super roy. 4to; qr. light brown buckram, spine lettered in gilt, patterned papered boards; top edges orange, others uncut; within cream papered slipcase with light brown buckram sides, a trifle soiled; The Whittington Press, Andoversford, Gloucestershire, 1990. Edition limited to 530 numbered copies; this being one of 460 thus bound. *With publisher's publicity slip loosely inserted. The texts are extracts from books or articles published by the Whittington Press, with commentary by John Randle and John Dreyfus. Includes illustrations by Hellmuth Weissenborn, Edward Ardizzone, Eric Gill, Robert Gibbings, Gwenda Morgan, a.o.