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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 . . .

Whittington Summer Show, 2018

Pat Randle — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 17:29:26 +0000

Whittignton Summer Show poster, 2017.

Caslon 8 on 9-point

Pat Randle — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 09:17:27 +0000

‘Why are William Caslon’s types so excellent and so famous? To explain this & make it really clear . . .

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 . . .

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.

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

Caslon 14-point

admin — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:04:44 +0000

‘Why are William Caslon’s types so excellent and so famous? To explain this & make it really clear . . .

Portraits of Presses, 1997

admin — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:32:06 +0000

Ski Harrison’s photographic portraits of the eight most productive fine presses of the day: Fleece, Rampant Lions, Gregynog, Old Stile, Tern, I. M. Imprimit, Rocket and Whittington.

When Caxton Discovered

admin — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:42:03 +0000

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