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Price: US$173.17 + shipping
Description: 800 copies, 4to (278 x 190mm.), [6],205p. profusely illustratred in colour & monochrome. A fine copy in original jacketed wrappers. (NEW BOOK) Contents include Anthony Dowd The fine press and the bookbinder, Martyn Ould Three books of Fell, John Smith Vivre le Verve, Marianne Tidcombe Cobden-Sanderson, Jacobi and the disposal of the Doves Press plant, Dann Carr Casting Chinese type, and Jerry Kelly Klingspor calendars.
Seller: Barry McKay Rare Books, Appleby-in-Westmorland, CUMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.49 + shipping
Description: Pp. [viii]+206(last blank)+[2](blank), numerous illustrations including engravings, photographs and other forms of illustration (many hand-tipped, some folding, some coloured), impl. 8vo; green stiff paper wrappers with engraving by J.-G. Daragn'e8s; dust wrapper, with linocut by Vance Gerry; Whittington Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 2003. First trade edition, being one of 715 copies. *With loosely inserted prospectus for Matrix Number 24. Articles include The Fine Press and the Bookbinder by Anthony Dowd; The Forgotten Pleasure of Hand-setting by Miriam MacGregor; Cobden-Sanderson, Jacobi and the Disposal of the Doves Press Plant by Marianne Tidcombe; Jean-Gabriel Daragnes: an Artist-Crafts, and Fallen into Oblivion by Peter Frank; Eric Gill, Jacques Raverat and an Abortive Four Gospels by Roderick Cave; Aspects of Golden Cockerel by Simon Lawrence, and John Dreyfus by David McKitterick.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 203 pp, plus numerous tip-ins and other illustrations; 7.75 x 11.25" One of 715 copies bound in stiff card wrappers (of 800 total copies) with printed dustjacket. Publisher's announcement laid in. With over 20 articles on printers, printing, private presses and the book arts, including Three Books of Fell (Martyn Ould); Vive La Verve (John Smith); The Forgotten Pleasures of Hand-setting (Miriam Macgregor); Cobden-Sanderson, Jacobi and the Disposal of the Doves Press Plant (Marianne Tidcombe); The Origins of Shanty Bay Press (Walter Bachinski); Eric Gill, Jacques Raverat and an Abortive Four Gospels; and Klingspor Calendars (Jerry Kelly). An as new copy.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Description: small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), 206 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 800 copies, this being one of 715 trade copies. Matrix is the longest surviving and probably the last typographical journal to be printed by letterpress. It is an eclectic mix of fine printing, type design, and small press lore, forming a record of events and personalities whose memory would otherwise have died with their recorders. It is no exaggeration to say that in the future it will be impossible to research fine printing without reference to Matrix. This issue contains twenty-five articles and additional book reviews, including: "Fine Press and the Bookbinder" by Anthony Dowd, "The Forgotten Pleasure of Hand-Printing" by Miriam MacGregor, "Working with Olive Cook" by Lucy Archer, "My Concatenation of Types," by Michael Caine, "Latterday Letterpress Printer" by Dennis Gould, and "Aspects of Golden Gockerel" by Simon Lawrence. Illustrated throughout with many tipped-in specimens on special paper, engravings, photographs, color plates, etc. and a 1937 Matisse, "Woman's Head," as frontispiece. paper-covered boards, dust jacket
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
[Whittington Press]. Matrix 23. Whittington Press, Risbury, England, 2003.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover. Number 8 of 85 copies of the deluxe edition. There were 800 total copies printed including 715 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 Marianne Tidcombe, William Peterson, John Randle, Roderick Cave, David McKitterick, Stan Nelson, and Crispin Elsted. Interspersed throughout are photographs, printing samples, and illustrations. Inserted in a back pocket is the prospectus for this volume. Quarter bound in brown Oasis leather with brown and cream marbled boards. Letterpress printed in Caslon, Cochin, and Bell & Romulus types on Somerville Laid and Hahnemühle papers. The deluxe copy includes a separate green paper covered folder with a facsimile of the 1920 Klingspor calendar printed from polymer plates by John Grice. Both volume and folder are housed in a green stiff board folder. In 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$538.76 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 85 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 23. BOUND IN QUARTER OASIS LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS, WITH A FACSIMILIE OF THE 1920 KLINGSPOR CALENDAR PRINTED BY JOHN GRICE, BOTH CONTAINED IN A SLIPCASE. A FINE COPY. SCARCE.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Price: US$590.07 + shipping
Description: Special limited edition, 1 of 85 copies, from a total edition of 800 copies. Quarter-bound in Oasis leather and marbled paper, and with a facsimile of the 1920 Klingspor calendar, 4to, 203 pp, mounted specimen leaves, inserts, plates, illustrations, many colour, some folding. The Winter 2003 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 - The Fine Press and the Bookbinder, by Anthony Dowd; Three Books of Fell, by Martyn Ould; The French Letter, by John Grice; Vive La Verve, by John Smith; The Forgotten Pleasures of Hand-setting, by Miriam Macgregor; Cobden-Sanderson, Jacobi and the Disposal of the Doves Press Plant, by Marianne Tidcombe; A Nursery of Inventions, by Rory Young; Working with Olive Cook, by Lucy Archer; An Album of Charles T. Jacobi, by William S. Peterson; David Wishart, 1928-2003, by John Randle; Jean-Gabriel Daragnès: an Artist-Craftsman Fallen into Oblivion, by Peter Frank; My Concaténation of Types, by Michael Caine; Latterday Letterpress Printer, by Dennis Gould; The Origins of Shanty Bay Press, by Walter Bachinski; Eric Gill, Jacques Raverat and an abortive Four Gospels, by Roderick Cave; Aspects of Golden Cockerel, by Simon Lawrence; Sanspareil Matrices, by James Mosley; Eric Milner-White: Cleric & Collector, by Richard Russell; John Dreyfus, by David McKitterick; Casting Five-Line Pica from Sanspareil Matrices, by Stan Nelson, Jim Walczak and Ellen McKee; Casting Chinese Type, by Dan Carr; Klingspor Calendars, by Jerry Kelly; Encouraging the Trombones: the Uses of Display and Titling Faces, by Crispin Elsted; The Book Design Collection at Manchester Metropolitan University, by Gaye Smith; Private Press Books 2002: a Review, by David Chambers; Book Reviews, by Alan Powers, Ruari Mclean, Simon Lawrence, Bernard Roberts, David McKitterick, Simon Brett, Adela Spinder Roatcap, John Randle. Copy No. XLI. Fine in Fine slipcase.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom