Mark Batty/Whittington Press ~ England

Type & Typography
Highlights from Matrix, the review for printers and bibliophiles. West New York, New Jersey: Mark Batty, 2003. 8x11" with 374 pages. “First in a planned series of anthologies from Mark Batty Publisher, drawing on articles in the respected journal Matrix, a review for printers and bibliophiles, produced annually for more than 20 years by John and Rose Randle at the Whittington Press in England.” Includes 36 articles from issues of Matrix (Sebastian Carter, Brooke Crutchley, John Dreyfus, James Mosley ...). With introductory essays by John Randle and John D. Berry. Contains additional illustrations that were not in the original Matrix volumes. Includes a comprehensive index. Designed by Jerry Kelly. Set in Hermann Zapf's Comenius. Printed by Butler and Tanner at Frome in England using offset-litho technology.

Trade edition hardcover in black & white dust jacket with red accent.
$60

Half-bound by The Fine Bindery in scarlet leather, with marbled paper boards. SIGNED by John Randle on the title page. Title in gilt. Folio contains 5 pieces of ephemera: samples of John DePol's wood engravings; Samples of Victor Hammer's type; type specimen printed by Sebastian Carter... Folio and book housed in gray and red slip case. Special version in an edition of seventy copies.
$250

Half-bound by The Fine Bindery in scarlet leather, with marbled paper boards. SIGNED by John & Rose Randle on the title page. Title in gilt. Folio contains 22 pieces of ephemera such as a wood-engraving by Hellmuth Weissenborn; invitation to the publication party for The Stanbrook Abbey Press; piece with wood-engraving signed by Miriam Macgregor tipped-in. Folio and book housed in gray and red slip case. Deluxe version in an edition of ten copies.
$725