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Price: US$5.15 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8pp book list, thread bound within brown thin card covers. Black lettering and a brown illustration by Hellmuth Weissenborn on front cover. Rear fold-in panel Order Form. Four publications are detailed on inside cream pages, three of them illustrated with floral engravings. 1. St Dominic's Press: a Bibliography (which is further promoted by an enclosed A4 size leaflet dated Autumn 1994). 2. The Whittington Press: a Bibliography 1982-1993. 3. Britten's Aldeburgh. 4. Matrix 14. This Book List was printed to accompany an exhibition of the Press's books at the Grolier Club in New York and at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$6.38 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Single fawn card promotion for forthcoming publication by the Whittington Press of Matrix 14. Border decorations. Unused.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$7.73 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8pp book list, thread bound within brown thin card covers. Black lettering and a brown illustration by Hellmuth Weissenborn on front cover. Rear fold-in panel Order Form. Four publications are detailed on inside cream pages, three of them illustrated with floral engravings. 1. St Dominic's Press: a Bibliography (which is further promoted by an enclosed A4 size leaflet dated Autumn 1994). 2. The Whittington Press: a Bibliography 1982-1993. 3. Britten's Aldeburgh. 4. Matrix 14. This Book List was printed to accompany an exhibition of the Press's books at the Grolier Club in New York and at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles. Also laid in is a handwritten address card signed by John Randle and a Keepsake (measuring 190mm x 145mm) printed for an exhibition at the Cheltenham Art Gallery, 11 August 1995 (engraved by Hellmuth Weissenborn).
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [6], 236pp, [2]. Original card covers in DJ. DJ spine lightly faded, slightly rubbed lower panel of DJ and to extremities, but generally bright and clean. One of 880 copies bound thus, with the order form for Matrix 15 laid in loosely. With articles by Ruari McLean, John Dreyfus, Sebastian Carter, and William S. Peterson Size: 4to
Seller: Zetetic Books, Berkhamsted, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.15 + shipping
Description: The Whittington Press. Herefordshire. 1994. Publishers paperboards. Illustrated dustjacket. 28 x 20 cm. 236 (4) pp. Good condition. Small bump on top of back spine.
Seller: Antikvariat Hundörat, Stockholm, Sweden
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 880 copies bound in stiff covers, printed on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall mould-made and Americana papers. [viii], 236, [4] pages, colour & b/w illustrations, including tip-ins and fold -outs. Contributors include Roderick Cave, Joanna Selborne, Ruari McLean, Mike Hudson, Joanna Jamieson, Bernard Roberts, John Dreyfus, Sebastian Carter, David Butcher, William S Peterson, David Wishart, Tanya Schmoller, Patrick Fox, David Bethel, etc., Articles cover a Visit to Alberto Tallone Editore; Edward Anthony Craig; Ravilious & Gibbings Correspondence; Stanley Morison's Handwriting; Restoring Ullmer's Albion; Printing for Joe Lubbock; Sydney Cockerell and the Kelmscott Press; Hubert J Foss as Book Designer; Hieratic Types; Margaret Wells and Leon Underwood; Roundel Trouble; James Guthrie/Will Ransom Correspondence etc. Single sheet flyers for Matrix 15 Reprint laid in. Minor wear to covers, contents fine, unmarked, some edgewear to dustjacket. [17294/715] Size: 285mm. x 200mm.
Seller: William Glynn, Reydon, United Kingdom
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Printed flexible boards, DW, small 4to., (2). 236, (1) pages, profusely illustrated including mounted specimens and inserts. One of 975 copies printed at Whittington from Caslon, Centaur and Cochin types on Sommervile Laid, Zerkall mouldmade and Americana papers. Contributions by Roderick Cave, Joanna Selborne, Ruari McLean, J. G. Lubbock (with color etching), David Butcher, Tanya Schmoller and many others. Order form for Matrix 15 laid in. A fine copy in a fine DW, in archival mylar.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
[Whittington Press]. Matrix 14. Whittington Press, Risbury, England, 1994.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover. One of 880 copies of the regular edition. There were also 95 copies in the deluxe edition. The annual publication of Matrix was 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 as Ruari McLean, John Dreyfus, Sebastian Carter, David Butcher, William Peterson, and Roderick Cave. Interspersed throughout are photographs, printing samples, and illustrations. Bound in light mauve stiff paper covers. Letterpress printed in Caslon and Cochin types and printed on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall mould-made papers. In fine condition. Measures 8 x 11 inches. BOB/102621.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 236 [1] pp. Illustrated. Small folio, publisher's illustrated boards in dust jacket. First edition; one of 975 copies. Fine in a fine jacket. Whittington Press ephemera laid in.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 236, [1] pp., illustrated, 4to, stiff/flexible paper-covered card covers, printed dustjacket in clear protective cover. With contributions by Roderick Cave, Ruari McLean, Joanna Jamieson, John Dreyfus, Sebastian Carter, Tanya Schmoller, Peter Foden, and others. One of 880 copies of this regular version printed on Sommerville Laid, Zerkall mould-made and Americana papers. With numerous tip-ins and fold-outs printed on different papers. Fine copy.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 975 copies, large 8vo, pp. [6], 236, [1]; 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 Sebastian Carter, John Dreyfus, Ruari McLean, and Roderick Cave.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$218.75 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 975 copies, 4to, pp. [6], 236, [1]; numerous illustrations throughout, including may tip-ins, some in color, largely of a typographic nature, prospectus for Matrix 15 and publisher's catalogue laid in; fine copy in paper-covered boards and dust jacket. Printed at the Whittington Press. Contributions by illustrators, scholars and printers, including Sebastian Carter, John Dreyfus, Ruari McLean, and Roderick Cave.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
[Whittington Press]. Matrix 14. Whittington Press, Risbury, England, 1994.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover. Number 23 of 95 copies of the deluxe edition. There were 975 total copies printed including 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 as Ruari McLean, John Dreyfus, Sebastian Carter, David Butcher, William Peterson, and Roderick Cave. Interspersed throughout are photographs, printing samples, and illustrations. There is a loose print and the volume's prospectus inserted in a back pocket. Quarter bound in magenta Oasis leather with magenta and orange marbled boards. The deluxe copy includes a separately bound book of wood engravings for Virgil's Georgics by Edward Craig. Both volumes are housed in a stiff board slipcase. Fine condition save for the slightest wear to Georgics. Matrix volume measures 8, x 11 inches. BOB/102621.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.