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Highlights from Matrix, the review for printers and bibliophiles.
West New York, New Jersey: Mark Batty, 2003.
Designed by Jerry Kelly. Set in Hermann Zapf's Comenius. Printed by Butler and Tanner at Frome in England using offset-litho technology.
“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.
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
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