Matrix: A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles
Edited by John Randle
Herefordshire, England: Whittington Press
An annual review for printers and bibliophiles. Always features informative articles plus any of variety of illustrations in many forms-etchings, pochoir, wood engravings, various papers, tipped-in photographs, and prints - the works!
Matrix 23. Winter 2003.
Edition of 800: 715 standard in stiff wrappers; 85 quarter-bound in Oasis leather and paper marbled by Christopher Rowlatt.
Set in Caslon, Cohin, Bell & Romulus types. Printed on Sommerville Laid, Hahnemühle Ingres and Creator papers. Colour plates printed by The Cloister Press and J. W. Northend.
Contains twenty-five articles plus book reviews, including: Anthony Dowd "Fine Press and the Bookbinder"; Miriam MacGregor "The Forgotten Pleasure of Hand-Printing"; Lucy Archer "Working with Olive Cook"; Michael Caine "My Concatenation of Types"; Dennis Gould "Latterday Letterpress Printer"; and Simon Lawrence "Aspects of Golden Cockerel". Illustrated and with tipped in specimens on special paper, engravings, photographs. color plates. Frontispiece is a 1937 Matisse "Woman's Head" .
This is the deluxe version with a facsimile of the 1920 Klingspor Calendar.
$775
Matrix 25. Winter 2005.
Edition of 760: 680 standard bound in stiff wraps and 80 in quarter-Bound Oasis leather with paper marbled by Christopher Rowlatt.
Set in Caslon, Poliphilus, Centaur, Cohin, Octavian and Walbaum Types. Printed on Sommerville Laid and Hahnemühle Bugra-Butten papers. Colour and tritone plates printed by CTD Printers.
Contains twenty-seven articles and additional book reviews, including: Gaylord Schanilec "Mayflies" ; Sophie Bowness and Time Nicholson "Nancy Nicolson and her work at the Poulk Press" ; Barbara Henry "With or Without Words"; Carolee Campbell "Ninja Press at Twenty" ; Gangolf Ulbricht "Tradition and Innovation: Paper-making by Hand in the Twenty-first Century"; Ruari McLean "Early Days at Penguin" ; Jerry Kelly "Anatomy of a Collector"; and Rosalind Randle "25 Years of Matrix". Illustrated throughout with tipped in specimens on special paper, engravings, photographs. color plates.
This is the deluxe bound with a portfolio of additional material.
$750
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