A Miscellany of Type Compiled at Whittington

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  • (Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, 1990)
(Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, 1990). First edition. One of 55 deluxe copies, specially bound, and with a separate portfolio, out of a total edition of 530 copies printed. The broadsides include items from the Press's collection of handmade papers acquired from the Oxford University Press, and four items assembled by Erik Voss. They include marbled paper samples for the Press of Colleen Gryspeerdt a hand-colored illustration by Carmen Voss, a signed Miriam Macgregor wood-engraving, and three blocks designed for Richard Kennedy's A Boy at the Hogarth Press, which are printed here for the first time. A very fine copy. Folio, illustrated with woodcuts by Richard Kennedy, Miriam Macgregor, Gwenda Morgan, Hellmuth Weissenborn and others, quarter Niger morocco, with separate portfolio of broadsides, in publisher's cloth & board slipcase. A very fine copy.

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Title

A Miscellany of Type Compiled at Whittington

Condition

Fine

Publisher

Whittington Press: (Andoversford, Gloucestershire

Date

1990)

Edition

First edition. One of 55 deluxe copies, specially bound, and wit


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