Title | Matrix 33 |
Artist / Creator | Pat and John Randle |
Press Name | Whittington Press |
Artist's Nationality | United Kingdom |
Place of Publication | nr Cheltenham, Gloucestershire |
Publication Date | 2015 |
Process / Technique | Letterpress |
Structure / Binding | Hand bound |
Paper Stock | Matrix fine laid and Bugra Butten |
Number of Pages | 120 pages |
Dimensions (WxHxD) | 7 x 11 x 2 inches closed |
Edition Size | Edition of 750 |
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 Images from the Nineteen Sixties by Dennis Gould; Herbert Jefferies, or The Bronze Buckaroo by Barbara Henry; Bradley Hutchinson - a Letterpress Fusion by Catherine Docter; Flaps & Hinges by Andrew Anderson; Hornby and the Daniels, their Correspondence by William S. Peterson; Reynolds Stone by Humphrey Stone; Lac Des Pleurs by Gaylord Schanilec; It's Not Nostalgia, the Skill and Vision of Lowell Bodger by Paul Shaw; An Eigheenth-Century Factory for Bibles by Martyn Ould; The Rampant Lions Press at the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1982 by Sebastian Carter; Reprinting Printing Types: a Wander through the Design of Stephenson Blake's Type Specimens by David Marshall and Elizabeth Ellis; Wood Type Revival by Tom Mayo, and much else besides.
Artist Bio
The Whittington Press has, since 1971, been printing books by letterpress, from type ('the way God intended', as the Revd. Bernard Roberts once remarked), in the Gloucestershire village of Whittington.