Whittington Press ~ England
(John and Rose Randle)

Ebble Valley
By Howard Phipps
Andoversford, England: Whittington Press, 2007. Edition of 230.

13 x 9"; 52 pages. Quarto format. Printed in 13 point Poliphilus on Czech Losin handmade paper. Engravings on a specially smooth making of Zerkall mouldmade. Of the edition:'C' 230 copies bound in half-buckram with printed paper sides and colored endpapers, in a slipcase; 'B' 45 copies bound in half Oasis Goatskin with printed paper sides, and a portfolio of proofs of a selection in a slipcase; 'A' 25 copies bound in full Oasis Goatskin, with Whittington marbled endpapers, a portfolio of proofs of the engravings, and a facsimile of one of the artist's detailed pencil sketches used as a study for an engraving, in a leather-backed solander box.

Prospectus: "Ebble Valley has been a decade in the making, and Howard Phipp's thirty wood-engravings, two fold-out coloured linocuts, double-spread linocut map, and evocative text make this the high point of the six books he has done for the Whittington Press....

"He has lived in the Ebble Valley for twenty years, and in his journey along the valley he describes how its cottages and farmhouses, mills and manor houses,fit into the gently rolling landscape of this little-known part of south Wiltshire."

Excerpt from text: "The Ebble is one of the smallest of these rivers and for its first few miles it is but a winterbourne, disappearing completely during the dry summer months. Nonetheless, its course passes through stretches of often and striking downland, the subject of this book."
$335 'C' copy, bound in half-buckram in a slipcase
$665 'B' copy, bound in half Oasis Goatskin with portfolio of proofs in a slipcase

The English Scene
By John O'Connor
2004. Edition of 200.

12.5 x 9.75" unpaginated. Book half leather with illustrated paper covered boards. Matching paper covered slip case with cloth top and bottom sides. Portfolio half cloth over paper-covered boards.

This copy of one of the 55 in the edition that have a special binding and are accompanied by a portfolio of four prints ( two color prints, a proof for the cover illustration, and one of nine engravings hand colored and initialed by the artist in 2002). Colophon initialed by O'Connor. Published in the same month as O'Connor's death in 2004. Printed on Fabriano and Hahnemuhle Ingres and Oxford cream laid papers. Bound by the Fine Bindery.

A collection of some of the early wood engravings of John O'Connor with descriptive text transcribed from a conversation with the artist. The book contains thirty three large wood engravings and four smaller one, many of which are printed with off-set color.
$670

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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British Private Press Prospectuses 1891-2001
By David Butcher
2001. Edition of 350.

This is a special copy ("C") bound in Oasis leather with three facsimile prospectuses. 8 x 11", 147 pp. in the back board pocket. Marbled endpapers. 20 prospectuses in separate pocket folder bound in paper and buckram. Includes 16 colored plates. The two volumes are in buckram slipcase with Oasis spine. #XXIX of 40 copies of a total edition of 350.
$1,875

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Letters Between Edward & Helen Thomas
2000. Edition of 150.

7.75 x 10.75", 22 pages. Set in Caslon type. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. Edition of 180 with 150 copies sewn into decorated paper covers.

These six letters exchanged between the poet Edward Thomas and his wife Helen are prefaced by a foreword by their daughter Myfanwy. Each is illustrated with a floral wood-engraving by Hellmuth Weissenborn.
$70

Cornwall, An Interior Vision
By Brian Hanscomb
1992. Edition of 135

10 x 14", 22 pages. SIGNED by Hanscomb on colophon. Bound Japanese style with black ribbon in stiff gray wrappers. Text and engravings by Hanscomb. Contains eight copper engravings accompanied by related text. Printed on hand-made paper. Deluxe edition with extra set of prints in slipcase.
$475

Type & Typography
2003 Highlights from Matrix over twenty years of publication.
Trade Edition $60
Special Version $250
Deluxe Version $725

The Whittington Press, A Bibliography 1982-93. By Butcher, David $250

Whittington Press Out of Print Titles:
• Britten's Aldeburgh
• Busy as a Bee
• Gwenda Morgan: The Diary of a Land Girl
• Fine Papers at the Oxford University Press
• Matrix 6
• Matrix 9
• Matrix 14
• Matrix 18
• Matrix 21: A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles
• Matrix 22
• Matrix 24 deluxe
• Matrix 24 standard
• Mattioli’s Herbal
• The wood engravings of John O’Connor