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Description: Special limited edition, 1 of 80 copies, from a total edition of 850 copies. Quarter-bound in Oasis leather and paper marbled by Rebecca Gryspeerdt, and containg a separate portfolio of engravings by Joan Ellis 4to, 195 pp, mounted specimen leaves, inserts, plates, illustrations, many colour, some folding. The Winter 1997 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 Typographical Importance of Maximilien Vox, by John Dreyfus; Washi Tour, Japan, by Maureen Richardson; Punch-cutting and Printing Ungut & Stanislaus, by Richard Arlin; The Southwold Columbian, by Olive Cook; The Compleat Caslon, by Justin Howes; Joan Ellis: a Lost Engraver from the Underwood School, by Hal Bishop; Bowne & Co., Stationers, by Barbara Henry; Caslon - a Lively Survival, by Alan Dodson; The Dust-jacket Designs of Hermann Zapf, by Jerry Kelly; Two Oxford Bible Types, by Paul Luna; The Ratdolt-Hammer Synthesis, by Theo Rehak; Bishop Fell's Overlooked Bequest in the OUP Museum by Peter Foden; The Digitised Golden Cockerel, by Sebastian Carter; Some Typographical Journals, 1900-1939, by Ruari McLean; Saving Face: the ITC Golden Cockerel Type, by Roderick Cave; Dada, what did YOU do in the Great War?, by Mike Hudson; Folio, a Cockerel's Fledgling, by Roderick Cave; El Lissitzky 1914-1924: Prouns' to Die Kunstismen', by Adela Spindler Roatcap; Bruce Rogers and the Harvard University Press: some less-known work, by J. F. Coakley; Private Press Books 1996: a Review, by David Chambers; Portraits of Presses, by John Randle; Book Reviews, by Dan Carr, John O'Connor, John Dreyfus, David Butcher, Simon Lawrence, David Esslemont; The Book Collection of Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst at Dartington Hall, by Lottie Hoare. Copy No. XXXI.Spine a little darkened, otherwise Fine in Fine slipcase.
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Description: Limited edition of 27 specially bound copies with an additional portfolio of photographic prints of each press and signed by the photographer and all the printers, from a total edition of 500 (of which 350 were for sale). . 2 vols, quarter leather and patterned paper boards, 28 x 30 cm, , xi, 53 pp, [70] pp of plates ;separate portfolio of nine prints ( 1 per press) signe don the mounts by the photographer. The de luxe edition of this very attractively printed work. From a review by James Ferguson: ".Portraits of Presses, a remarkable new book published by one of the doyens of the business - John Randle of the Whittington Press in Gloucestershire. It gathers essays on a selection of British printers, illustrated with sets of black-and-white photographs taken by Ski Anderson. Anderson worked for more than two years at pictures of Albion and Heidelberg presses, platens, friskets and tympans, pressmen and presswomen and cases of old wooden type. She used exposure times of 15 to 30 seconds and no flash. The results are powerful, ruminative, absorbing; and, of course, beautifully printed. CTD of Twickenham, whose tritone process and perfectionism were responsible for the reproduction, are themselves the subject of an eloquent essay by John Randle." Includes seven examples of printers' works (some folded), tipped in. "One platen press looks much like another, but each takes on its own personality in the hands of its owner, and in his or her workshop. This is what this book seeks to convey in these photographs, a difficult task which Ski has so admirably tackled. Her photographs will provide a record of a moment in private press activity in the mid-nineties, the result of a renaissance that started twenty or more years ago, just as letterpress was beginning to be abandoned by the printing trade. Private presses will not be able to rely upon a supply of industry's redundant machinery for much longer, and Portraits of Presses may turn out to be a memorial to a golden age of rehabilitated Albions and discarded platens." - from the introduction. Contents: Introduction; The Photographer's View; Simon Lawrence: The Fleece Press; David Esslemont: Gwasg Gregynog; Ian Mortimer: I. M. Imprimit; Nicolas McDowall: The Old Stile Press; Sebastian Carter: The Rampant Lions Press; Jonathan Stephenson: The Rocket Press; Nicholas and Mary Parry: The Tern Press; John Randle: The Whittington Press; John Randle:Mind and Eye at CTD. Copy No. xxvii (the last of the 27 "specials"). Fine set in a somewhat scuffed publisher's box with leather spine-label.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom