Pages from presses : Kelmscott, Ashendene, Doves, Eragny, Vale & Essex House / with a commentary by David Butcher
- Bib ID:
- 3304253
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Butcher, David, 1945-
- Edition:
- [Ed. A.]
- Description:
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- Leominster Herefordshire, U.K. : Whittington Press, c2006
- xiii, 102 p. : facsims. ; 40 cm. + 1 portfolio.
- ISBN:
- 1854280813
- Notes:
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- Portfolio contains six loose leaves from works published by Kelmscott, Ashendene, Doves, Eragny, Vale and Essex House presses.
- In slipcase.
- "50 copies number I-L, bound in full Nigerian Goatskin, with a Doves Press leaf on vellum and thirteen original paper leaves, and a separate portfolio of original leaves"--Colophon.
- Folded leaf opposite title page shows examples of types cut for Kelmscott, Ashendene, Doves, Eragny, Vale & Essex House. "Printed on Joseph Batchelor's Kelmscott paper hand-made for William Morris, to accompany the leaves from the presses in Pages from the Presses. The types are printed from copper plates."
- "Pages from Presses seeks to analyse and display the qualities of six major British private presses that began work in the final decade of the nineteenth century"--Introduction.
- "Every copy of Pages from Presses has one leaf from each of the six Presses, but the A and B copies include additional leaves to show many of the other typefaces used by the Presses"--Introduction.
- Bibliography: p. 101-102.
- Library holds copy XXVII.
- Library's copy signed by David Butcher.
- Library's copy includes letter and prospectus from The Whittington Press.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2006
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