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Printing at the Whittington Press, 1972-1994 : an exhibition at the Grolier Club, New York, 28 September--18 November 1994 / with essays by John Randle, John Dreyfus & Mark Batty.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Grolier Club 14
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Z232.W63 P75 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Randle, John (Leslie John), author.
- Dreyfus, John, author.
- Batty, Mark, author.
- Series:
- Typophiles monograph ; new ser., no. 12.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Whittington Press--Exhibitions.
- Whittington Press.
- Private press books--Great Britain--Bibliography--Exhibitions.
- Limited editions--Great Britain--Bibliography--Exhibitions.
- Fine books--Great Britain--Bibliography--Exhibitions.
- Printing--England--Gloucestershire--History--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Printing.
- History.
- Fine books.
- Limited editions.
- Private press books.
- Gloucestershire (England)--Imprints--Exhibitions.
- England--Gloucestershire.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Wood engravings (prints) -- England -- Twentieth century (dates CE).
- Exhibition catalogues.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Illustrated works -- Vermont -- Lunenburg -- 20th century.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Monotype.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.
- Mohawk Ticonderoga (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Traister, Daniel (donor)
- Traister, Barbara (donor)
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 63 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Distribution:
- [New Castle, Delaware] : [Oak Knoll Press]
- Manufacture:
- Lunenburg, VT : Stinehour Press.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : International Typeface Corporation, 1994.
- [New York] : Grolier Club.
- Contents:
- The Whittington Press : an appreciation / Mark Batty
- Types at Whittington / John Randle
- A critical appreciation of Matrix nos. 1-13 / John Dreyfus
- Part 1. Before the Whittington Press
- Part 2. The hand-setting days
- Part 3. Monotype setting comes to the Whittington Press
- Part 4. Matrix : a review for printers and bibliophiles.
- Notes:
- "Typeset in Monotype & foundry Caslon, printed letterpress & fine-line offset, and bound, by The Stinehour Press. The original Miriam Macgregor woodcut and the jacket were printed at The Whittington Press. The text paper is Mohawk Ticonderoga. Photographs of The Whittington Press by Ski Harrison. The book has been designed by Jerry Kelly."--Colophon.
- "Printed in a limited edition of 2,500 copies, of which 750 are reserved for The Grolier Club, 300 for Agfa Corporation, 700 for The Typophiles as Typophile Monograph New Series Number 12, with the remainder for International Typefact Corporation. 250 copies have been signed by John Randle. An additional 250 have been signed by both Miriam Macgreor & John Randle."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries copy is one of a limited edition of 2500 copies (one of 750 reserved for The Grolier Club, with a letter from The Grolier Club and an advertisement of its upcoming events laid in). Cf. colophon
- Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Daniel and Barbara Traister.
- Penn Libraries copy: dust jacket retained.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy retains paper wrapper.
- OCLC:
- 31603235
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