Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [6], 207pp, [1]. Original card covers in DJ. DJ spine lightly faded, corners lightly bumped otherwise bright and clean. One of 850 copies bound thus. Includes articles by John Dreyfus, Sebastian Carter, John O'Connor, and Enid Marx Size: 4to
Seller: Zetetic Books, Berkhamsted, United Kingdom
Price: US$115.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 850 copies bound in stiff covers, printed on Sommerville, Zerkall and Tosa Butten papers. [viii], 207, [5] pages, colour & b/w illustrations, including tip-ins and fold -outs. Contributors include Brooke Crutchley, John A Lane, John Dreyfus, Joseph D'Ambrosio, James Mosley, Marthe Armitage, Roderick Cave, Sebastian Carter, Jan Van Krimpen, Desmond Flower, Christopher Skelton, Solveig Stone, Enid Marx; Alan Powers, etc., Articles cover Reynolds Stone & Cambridge; Twentieth-Century Punchcutters; Patterns from Lino; Setting Up a Monotype Workshop; Three Artists at Haslewood Books; Morison and van Krimpen; Skelton's Press and the September Press; Compton Marbling; Some Printers of the 1950s and 60s; Gwenda Morgan; Joseph Blumenthal; Art Workers Revels etc. Minor wear, bumping to covers, contents fine, unmarked, some edgewear to dustjacket. [17292/714] Size: 285mm. x 200mm.
Seller: William Glynn, Reydon, United Kingdom
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 955 copies, 4to, pp. [6], 207; numerous illustrations throughout, including may tip-ins, some in color, largely of a typographic nature; fine copy in paper-covered boards and dust jacket. Printed at the Whittington Press. Contributions by illustrators, scholars and printers, including Brooke Crutchley, Sebastian Carter, James Mosley, John Dreyfus, and Jan Van Krimpen.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 955 copies, large 8vo, pp. [6], 207; numerous illustrations throughout, including may tip-ins, some in color, largely of a typographic nature, Matrix 12 prospectus and Matrix 2 reprint prospectus laid in; fine copy in paper-covered boards and dust jacket. Printed at the Whittington Press. Contributions by illustrators, scholars and printers, including Brooke Crutchley, Sebastian Carter, James Mosley, John Dreyfus, and Jan Van Krimpen.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Includes articles by Brooke Crutchley, John A. Lane, Emery Walker, James Mosley, Marthe Armitage, Roderick Cave, Sebastian Carter, Jan van Krimpen, Joseph Blumenthal and others. Illustrated. One of 955 copies bound in decorated paper boards from a total edition of 955. Fine Condition.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Randle, John and Rosalind [Eds]. Matrix 11,. Whittington Press, Risbury Herefordshire, 1991.
Price: US$230.56 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Special limited edition of 105 copies bound in green quarter leather/green and blue marbled paper boards. 207pp, illustrated with inserts, plates, specimen leaves , many colour, a printed wrapper in pocket at rear. In a slipcase, no insert ; quarto
Seller: Castle Hill Books, Llandrindod Wells, United Kingdom
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 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
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$333.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback, quarter bound in morocco with marbled boards, with slipcase. 166pp. Illustrated with plates, samples and illustrations to text. First edition, printed in a limited edition of 955 copies, one copy number 47 of 105 specially bound copies. The wrapper for the softcover edition inserted in pocket to rear board. With it a separately bound copy with engravings of John O'Connor's Twins, signed by the artist. However lacking three of the tipped in items (p. 56, 57 & 60)
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
[Whittington Press]. Matrix 11. Whittington Press, Risbury, England, 1991.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. Number 38 of 105 copies of the deluxe edition. There were 955 total copies printed including 850 copies of the regular edition. This is one of the special copies of the annual publication of Matrix, one of the foremost publications on the book arts during its 36 year existence. Sadly, Matrix 36, published in 2020, was the last annual edition of the Matrix series. After 36 years, Whittington Press owners, John and Rose Randle, decided to discontinue producing this fine annual for printers and bibliophiles on the book arts that compiled articles, illustrations, paper and typography samples and book reviews. This issue includes a number of articles by such well-known bibliophiles and book artists as John Dreyfus, Ruari McLean, Sebastian Carter, John Randle, Jan Van Krimpen, and Roderick Cave. Interspersed throughout are photographs, printing samples, and illustrations. There is the volume's prospectus inserted in a back pocket. Quarter bound in green Oasis leather with blue and green marbled boards. Letterpress printed in Caslon, Fournier, and Garamond types on Somerville Laid and Zerkall Mould-made papers.The deluxe copy includes a separate book bound in orange paper boards with a story and wood engravings by John O'Connor. Both volumes are housed in a stiff board green slipcase. Near fine condition with small mark on book spine and some wear to slipcase. Matrix volume and folder measure 8 x 11 inches. BOB/102621.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.