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Matrix 35

Pat Randle — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:10:34 +0000

Matrix 35 looks like being an unusually full and varied issue (even by its own standards, see over). We break our golden rule of ignoring the outpourings of the Whittington Press: there is a telling account of the . . .

A Slow Ride to India

Pat Randle — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 10:38:10 +0000

Once upon a time it was possible to drive from England to India, in the days when there was a Shah in Persia and a King in Afghanistan, and the Khyber Pass was still negotiable. A succession of Land Rovers, VW Campervans, and in one case a Mercedes bus still advertising its destination in Berlin, made the journey in the sixties and early seventies until revolutions and invasions put an end . . .

A Boy at the Whittington Press by Paul Wakeman

Pat Randle — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 13:46:42 +0000

Paul Wakeman was recruited in 1986 when the Oxford University Press was in the process of discarding its Monotype equipment and installing computers. With his help John Randle ferried car-loads of printing machinery . . .

Matrix 34

Pat Randle — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:37:03 +0000

Matrix 34 encompasses a wide variety of topics, united by its primary interest in printing by letterpress, from metal type. This preoccupation can take many forms, and includes this year . . .

Venice by John Craig

Pat Randle — Thu, 12 May 2016 20:48:11 +0000

Venice is at last back from the binders, having been on the press for most of 2015. The 80 wood-engravings, and some linocuts, some with colour, have made the book a printer’s challenge. John Craig’s use of white space has, as with Britten’s Aldeburgh (2000) and The Locks of the Oxford Canal (1985), been critical, and the asymmetric imposition of type and images is based upon his precise layouts.

Matrix 33

Pat Randle — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 12:29:28 +0000

Matrix 33 contain some 160 pages, including 8 pages of colour plates; type specimens printed in Sweden, Italy, America and the UK; and many other linocut, and line and colour illustrations. The contents includes: ‘A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall’: Protest

Rose’s Aga Recipes

admin — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:51:30 +0000

Text by Rosalind Randle, linocuts by Judith Verity, this classic of kitchen literature and family life has gone through five editions.

A Vision of Order, 2011

admin — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:49:19 +0000

Andrew Anderson’s linocuts on a monumental scale. Indescribable, but the inspiration probably includes mediaeval architecture, Eric Gill, the holy spirit, and the tradition of fine printing on an Albion press.

Matrix 30

admin — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:25:36 +0000

John Craig never met his grandfather Edward Gordon Craig, who lived then in the South of France, but these affectionate letters show that the old man appreciated and fostered his grandson’s emerging talents. George Ramsden tracked down the life of

Matrix 31

admin — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:24:03 +0000

The design of the dust-jacket was intended to suggest marionettes and their strings, the engraving had come to us a Christmas card. Elizabeth Grice nicely caught the flavour of Fleet Street in the 60s when, as one was going home,

The Whittington Press, A Bibliography 1982-1993, 1996

admin — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:55:43 +0000

1 of 28 special copies in full leather. This is the second, and so far the latest, volume of the Press’s bibliography. It was a decade in which the Press consolidated its activities to date and, taking advantage of having

The Phoenix, 2005

admin — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 10:54:44 +0000

In 2002 Brian Hanscomb’s studio was tragically destroyed by fire, everything went including many of the copper engravings, and the nineteenth-century paper we had sent him for our next book. The Phoenix is a celebration of the rebuilt studio, and includes those images which could be repaired, as well as new ones, accompanied by Brian’s haiku.