Incline Press : a brief illustrated history / Graham Moss and Kathy Whalen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moss, Graham, 1947-2025, author.

Whalen, Kathy, author.

Contributor:

Sanderson, Peter J., compositor.

Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967, type designer.

Incline Press, printer, binder.

Oxford Guild of Printers, organizer.

JPP Paper (Firm), papermaker.

M & H Type (Firm), compositor.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Incline Press.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Poliphilus.

Case bindings (Binding)

Marbled paper bindings (Binding)

Printed paper binding labels (Binding)

Wrappers (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Incline Press 1) (Incline Press 2))

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Incline Press 1) (Incline Press 2))

Physical Description:

[16] pages : color illustrations, sample ; 19 cm

Other Title:

At Incline Press

Place of Publication:

Oldham ... England : Incline Press, 2000.

Notes:

Title vignette (printer's device by David Young) in green; printer's device (by John R. Smith) in gold on page [15].

Red wood-engraved initial by Elizabeth Friedlander; text in black and blue.

Sample bookplate mounted to page [5].

"Hand-set, printed and bound at Incline Press ... The paper is 160gsm Heritage from John Purcell, London, and the type Poliphilus. The 13 pt was cast by Peter Sanderson at Whittington and the 16 pt at M & H Type of San Francisco. Devised for the Oxford Guild of Printers Millennium Project for which a hundred copies have been bound in hand-made DeNimes rag paper from Two Rivers Paper of Watchet in Somerset. A special binding has been used on copies sent to our subscribers"--Colophon.

Binding: paper wrapper with printed paper label ("AT INCLINE PRESS") on front wrapper. Special binding: dark blue cloth on right board and spine; quarter blue cloth over marbled paper on left board.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies (Incline Press 1 & 2) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Incline Press 1) bound in paper wrapper with printed paper label ("AT INCLINE PRESS") on front wrapper

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Incline Press 1) has laid in business card of Oliver Clark of Collinge & Clark, London and business card of John Dwyer, carpenter and joiner.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Incline Press 2) is number 72, bound for Collinge & Clark, of a limited edition of 75 copies in the special binding for subscribers. Copy information and limitation statement supplied in manuscript. See colophon.

OCLC:

44698937