Matrix 6 A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles. Number Six. Winter 1986.

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[Publisher's colophon]: 'This edition of 900 copies is set in 12-point Monotype Caslon and printed at The Whittington Press on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall Halbmatt papers. The colour plates and half-tones are printed at The Senecio Press. The wood-engravings are printed from the wood, and the line blocks are made by Keene Engraving. 800 copies are bound in stiff covers, [this copy is one of these 800] and 100 copies in boards covered in Whittington marbled-paper, by Smith Settle & Co., Otley, West Yorkshire. The [printer's] ornament was cast by Paul Hayden Duensing. December 1986 Copy No: 717." 8 in. x 11 1/4 in., half-title with Vance Gerry wood-engraving, frontispiece wood-engraving (Lettice Sandford); [4]pp., 1-182 pp. + final printed leaf with mounted photographic reproduction. Illustrated with color & black & white photographic half-tone plates relating to The Double Crown Club, historical photographs, fold-out map (Castle Press), woodcuts, inserted printed leaves or illustrations (John DePol), four Chinese paper samples (Hans Schmoller), one modern paper sample (Maureen Richardson), Black Sparrow Charles Bukowski (Ham On Rye) Broadside; material on Egyptian Hieroglyphic type faces, etc. With the printed order form for Matrix 7, inserted in this copy (this has a rubberstamped bookseller/distributor's name on the lower margin). Gray-green stiff wrappers, with Peter Forster woodcuts, and printed contents on the front cover, advance announcement for Roderick Cave/Dard Hunter II "Ceremonial Papers of the Chinese" on the back cover. Matrix 6 is an interesting and very desirable issue. [Contents from the front cover]: [1] Llewelyn & Theodore, by Robert Gibbings; [2] From County Cork to Chiswick & Cockerel: Roderick Cave; [3] Some Fond Reminiscences of a Boy Printer at the Castle Press: Vance Gerry; [4] The Early Years of the Double Crown Club: John Dreyfus; [5] 'Seems to See with his Fingers': the Printing of Joyce's 'Ulysses': Glenn Storhaug; [6] Patrick Reagh, Printer: Scott Freutel; [7] Weeds in my Garden: Miriam Macgregor; [8] Paper-chasing with Hans: Tanya Schmoller; [9] Portrait of the Wood-engraver in Middle Age: Peter Forster; [10] Paper as an Art Form: Maureen Richadson; [11] Private Presses in the John Johnson Collection: Anne Flavell; [12] John Johnson: Enid Marx; [13] By the Look of it: Robert Kelly; [14] 'And it Sold the Muffins', Reflections on Jobbing Printing: Sebastian Carter; [15] Fine Printing in California & England: the Clark Library Collection: John Bidwell; [16] Memories of T. E. Lawrence & Gregynog: Michael Hutchins; [17] On Hieroglyphic Types: David Wishart; [18] Woodcut Pattern Papers, & the Engraved Work of John DePol: Renee I. Weber; [18] 'Congeniality' in the Typography of Books: Brooke Crutchley; [19] The Ballad of Paul Hayden Duensing: Timothy Hawley; [20] A Collaboration: Letters between John O'Connor & Christopher Dandford: Roderick Cave; [21] Further Thoughts on the Literature of Letterpress Printing: Geoffrey Wakeman; [23] 'The Most Underrated of Typographers': Ruari McLean; [24] Private Press Books 1985, a Review: David Chambers; [25] Hans Schmoller's Contributions to Matrix: John Randle; [26] Two Poems: Philip Gallo. Weight: 2 1/2 lbs. Postage may be extra on this item. N° de ref. del artículo ABE-649940512

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