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Price: US$84.66 + shipping
Description: 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. [vi] + 234pp. Tipped in ills. many colour, ills., plates. Original stiff wrapps., sl. rubbed d/w. One of 720 Copies bound in stiff covers of 825.With Articles including Olive Cook Novelty and the Sense of Continuity; Jonah Jones The Universal Penman; Fiona MacCarthy by Father Brocard Sewell; etc. Additional postage may be necessary US$84
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$173.17 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Text set in Caslon and Bell. 825 copies printed on Sommerville, Zerkall, Hahnemuhle, Bugra and Korean papers. This, one of 745 copies sewn and glued into printed card covers and printed paper wrappers. A fine copy.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$179.59 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$206.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. Limited to 745 copies of 825 printed, 234pp.This work includes articles on various book, related subjects from several authors: Justin Howes, William S. Peterson, Paul Kershaw, Leonard Baskin, Roderick Cave who's Tranh Don Ho: A Vietnamese Paperchase, much like Dard Hunter, traveled to Hanoi in search of paper used for illustrations by wood block and has included a full sheet woodblock print and several other writers along with their examples either tipped in, laid in, or bound in plates, photographs, paper samples, and art. A fine bright copy bound in stiff decorative paper wraps, in printed paper wraps and glassine wrapper. A fresh copy.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Pp 234, with numerous tip-ins and other illustrations. Original printed stiff covers with printed dj and glassine dj, 8 x 11.25". This issue contains over 20 articles on printers, printing, private presses and the book arts, including Caslon's Punches and Matrices (by Justin Howes), The Correspondence of Daniel Berkely Updike and Thomas Maitland Cleland (William S. Peterson), Emerson Wulling, Printer for Pleasure (Gaylord Shanilec), Icones (Leonard Baskin), The Making of the Borges Book in Verona (Richard-Gabriel Rummonds), Jerry Kelly (A Century for the Century), Typographic Sculpture: the Survival of Punchcutting at the Imprimerie Nationale (Dan Carr), and The Wrington Wharfedale: an Afterword (Bernard Seward). Publisher's announcement for Matrix 21 laid in. One of 745 copies of the regular edition. A fine and fresh copy.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 825 copies. 7 ¾ in. x 11 ¼ in. 234 pp. Various types of illustrations including samples of fine printing (some tipped in, others loosely laid in). Printed paper cover over flexible boards. In a glassine wrapper. Also laid-in are: (1) a 5 3/8 in. x 10 3/4 in. announcement of this issue and an order form; and (2) a 4-page, 5 ¾ in. x 8 1/8 in. brochure soliciting enrollment in the Fine Press Book Association. Fine condition. This item weighs 2 ¾ lbs. Postage may be extra on this item.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
[Whittington Press]. Matrix 20. Whittington Press, Risbury, England, 2000.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. Number 65 of 80 copies of the deluxe edition. There were 825 total copies printed including 745 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 William Peterson, Gaylord Schanilec, Leonard Baskin, Jerry Kelly, John Dreyfus, Sebastian Carter, 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 tan Oasis leather with tan, yellow, and brown marbled boards. Letterpress printed in Caslon, Fournier, and Garamond types on Somerville Laid and Zerkall Mould-made papers.The deluxe copy includes a separate folder bound in cream paper boards with nine wood engravings by Freda Tremlett. Both volumes are housed in a light red stiff board slipcase. Near fine condition. Matrix volume and folder measure 8 x 11 inches. BOB/102621.
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop, ABAA, Savage, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$487.45 + shipping
Description: Special limited edition, 1 of 80 copies, from a total edition of 825 copies. Quarter-bound in Oasis leather and paper marbled by Christopher Rowlatt, and containing a separate portfolio of engravings by Freda Tremlett, 4to, 234 pp, mounted specimen leaves, inserts, plates, illustrations, many colour, some folding. The Winter 2000 issue of this highly literate and gloriously produced chronicle of fine printing, private press work and the book arts. Each issue of Matrix is not only a thoroughly enjoyable read but also a visual and tactile delight with numerous tipped-in specimen papers, pieces of fine printing, etc - it really cannot be too highly recommended. Contents - Caslon's Punches and Matrices, by Justin Howes; The Correspondence of Daniel Berkeley Updike and Thomas Maitland Cleland, by William S. Peterson; High Places & Extended Views, by Paul Kershaw; Novelty and the Sense of Continuity, by Olive Cook; Emerson Wulling, Printer for Pleasure, by Gaylord Schanilec; Icones, by Leonard Baskin; Frank Sidgwick's Diary, edited and introduced by Ann Baer; James Davis, by Nicolas Barker; The Making of the Borges Book in Verona, by Richard-Gabriel Rummonds; The Universal Penman, by Jonah Jones; Nonesuch Revisited, by John Dreyfus, with a supplement by David McKitterick; The Arrighi Ornaments, by Theo Rehak; Father Brocard Sewell, by Fiona MacCarthy; A Century for the Century, by Jerry Kelly; Adventures of a Marbler, by Robin Heyeck; Typographic Sculpture: the Survival of Punchcutting at the Imprimerie Nationale, by Dan Carr; Tales from Bleeding Heart Yard, by Simon Lawrence; The American Typecasting Fellowship Conference, 2000, by Julia Ferrari; Black Ink, by Sarah Daniels; 'Leave Nothing to be Desired', by Harold Dotterill; Printing & the Mind of Man, by Sebastian Carter; New Borders: the Working Life of Elizabeth Friedlander, by Pauline Paucker; Tranh Dong Ho: a Vietnamese Paperchase, by Roderick Cave; Freda Tremlett, the Ruskin School and Farrago by Hal Bishop; The Wrington Wharfedale: an Afterword, by Bernard Seward; Private Press Books 1999: a Review, by David Chambers; Book Reviews, by Simon Lawrence, Pat Jaffé. Jonah Jones, Glenn Storhaug and Sebastian Carter. Copy No. XX! Fine in Fine slipcase.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom