Garden Birds Gather
Gardens Birds Gather was originally intended for production at the Whittington Press Open Day on 3 September where Peter is usually able to work under bright skies. Sadly rain intervened in 2016 and until now the poster, like the birds, has been kept
£40.00 Add to cartIt’s Hard to Tell a Lie
This quotation appeared on James Mosley’s blog, and it appealed to us as Caslon (used here) is our favourite face. 60 copies were printed for the 2009 open day, and for the Caslon Club, an esoteric group whose membership is
£40.00 Add to cartCentaur
“Centaur is among the most elegant and legible of the twentieth-century romans. Designed by Brtuce Rogers and hand-cut in 1915 for casting into case, it was redrawn for Monotype and reissued in 1929, and used by Rogers for his Oxford
£40.00 Add to cartWhen Caxton Discovered
Hilary Pepler is among the most colourful exponents of twentieth-century letterpress printing. Here he allows his gaze to fall (inaccurately, see footnote) on the origins and socio-religious history (a few references missing here) of the printed word. But his sheer
£40.00 Add to cartThe Master Printer
“The master craftsman is here at work, demonstrating elegant use of movable type . . . ” Enlarged from a poster cut-out from Rudolf Koch’s Die Schriftgiesserie im Schattenbild, 1936, this poster was printed for the special copies of Matrix
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Geoffrey Miller, for a while the printing partner of Edward Walters (see Matrix 00, pp. 00-00), was something of a mystery. Immensely talented as an engraver, but with a tiny output, nobody seemed to know anything about him until Sean
£40.00 Add to cartReynolds Stone’s Janet
When in Matrix 28 we printed Michael Harvey’s account of the digitising of Reynolds Stone’s Janet fount, we included a print from the original wood-engraving on which Reynolds had engraved each character, except for some reason the figure 5. He
£40.00 Add to cartLe Tourbillon
This Matisse head appeared in the first issue of Verve, that feast of inspiration first published by Teriade in Paris in 1937. Le Tourbillon is from Truffaut’s film Jules et Jim of 1962. They first came together by chance in
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This one was first printed as the frontispiece for Pages from Presses (2006). We decided this was the best way to show off the various types used by the earlier private presses from Kelmscott onwards that were the subject of
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Pastorale, a selection of wood-engravings by Lucien Pissarro (son of Camille), was printed on three of Joseph Batchelor’s hand-made papers made to William Morris’ specification, from the original blocks lent to us by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Charles Ricketts
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Much of 2010 and 2011 were taken up with printing Andrew Anderson’s linocuts for A Vision of Order (2012). These striking images, some of which took up almost the entire 20 x 30-inch bed of the Western proof press, and
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