Matrix 9 A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles. Number Nine. Winter 1989.

[Publisher's colophon]: "This edition of 925 copies is set in 12-point Monotype Caslon and printed at the Whittington Press on Sommerville Laid, Hahnemuhle and Zerkall papers. The half-tones are printed as tritones at CTD Printers, except for those between pp. 112-21 which are printed at the Senecio Press, and the line blocks are made by Keene Engraving. 820 copies are bound in stiff covers [this copy is one of the 820] and 105 copies are quarter-bound in Oasis leather and paper marbled by Colleen Gryspeerdt and include 'A Letter to Colette' bound in the same style as the original in the Clark Library, Los Angeles. Edited by John & Rosalind Randle, & bound by The Fine Bindery August 1989. 8 in. x 11 1/4 in., half-title with Robert Gibbings wood-engraving; photographic frontispiece portrait of Gibbings; [4]pp., 1-200 pp. + final leaf with mounted photographic reproduction: Gibbings' Willow. Illustrated with black & white photographic half-tone plates; historical photographs relating to Gibbings & others, fold-outs (Wharfedale), woodcuts, inserted printed leaves or illustrations; a signed Shirley Jones mezzotint (135/300), at p. 80; a Chinese woodblock print (Rongbaozhai Studio, Beijing), at p. 173; illustrations of D'Ambrosio books, Bengali type faces, etc." With the printed order form for Matrix 10, inserted in this copy. Light pink stiff wrappers, with a Gibbings woodcut, and printed contents on the front cover. The paper spine shows very light fading. This issue contains much on Robert Gibbings and Stanley Morison. [Contents from the front cover]: [1] The Four Fathers of Richard Kennedy, by John Randle; [2] Thoughts on Wood: Robert Gibbings; [3] Reminiscences of Albert Cooper: Sue Walker & Martin Andrews; [4] Notes on the Printing Methods of the Golden Cockerel Press: A. C. Cooper; [5] My Career in Medicine: Robert Gibbings; [6] Gibbings & Gill: Arcady in Berkshire: Fiona MacCarthy; [7] A Letter to Colette: Robert Gibbings; [8] Some Correspondence between Robert Gibbings & Thomas Balston: John Dreyfus; [9] The Robert Gibbings Collection in Reading University Library: Michael Bott; [10] Robert Gibbings & the University of Reading: Michael Bott & Martin Andrews; [11] Robert Gibbings & the 'Willow': Sue Walker & Martin Andrews; [12] Remembering Stanley Morison: Brooke Crutchley & David McKitterick; [13] Word & Print at the Red Hen Press: Shirley Jones; [14] The Wrington Wharfedale: Bernard Seward; [15] A Collection of Printers' Flowers: Mark Arman; [16] D'Ambrosio: Ward Ritchie, Gloria Stuart & Joseph D'Ambrosio; [17] Stanley Morison & Jan van Krimpen: a Survey of their Correspondence: Sebastian Carter; [18] From Metal Type to Digital Letterforms: Fiona Ross; [19] The Printing of the 'Alice' Engravings: Jonathan Stephenson; [20] The Making of the 'Vigil of Venus': Roderick Cave; [21] Jan Tschichold & Chinese Woodblock Printing: Charles Antin; [22] The Rylands Private Press Collection: D. W. Riley; [23] Book Review: 'Eric Gill' by Fiona MacCarthy: Brocard Sewell; [24] Private Press Books 1988: A Review: David Chambers; [25] 'Chrissakes, Dummy!' by Patrick Reagh. Weight: 2 3/4 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item.…