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Oxford's ornaments : a showing of the extant typographical ornaments of Oxford University Press, individually and in combinations, together with notes on their origin, in particular their matrices
Title
Oxford's ornaments : a showing of the extant typographical ornaments of Oxford University Press, individually and in combinations, together with notes on their origin, in particular their matrices / Martyn Ould.
ISBN
9781899933235
1899933239
Publication
Bath, UK : Old School Press, 2007.
Physical Description
63, pages, [15] leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 29 cm
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 100 of 123, for Neale M. Albert; signed by the author. Bound in publisher's quarter leather and marbled boards; in publisher's cloth slipcase.
Notes
"The text was machine-set in 13pt Monotype (hot-metal) Van Dijck at Gloucester Typesetting and printed at The Old School Press on an antique Rives BFK paper. The individual displays of units were printed on Simili Japon. The central gathering ... was printed on a laid Rives paper from OUP ... The cover paper on de luxe copies was marbled by Ann Muir ... The end-papers and dust-jacket of the standard copies are Hahnemuehle Bugra Butten. The binding was executed by Ludlow Bookbinders"--Colophon.
Limited edition of 123 copies.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 11, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-60).
Contents
Introduction
Previous catalogues
Recent findings
The display
The sources
The photographs
The subscribers.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
History.
Typefaces (Type evidence) - Van Dijck (Monotype)
Laid papers - Rives - England - 2007.
Letterpress printing - England - 2007.
Numbered limited editions - England - 2007.
Paper (fibre product) - Hahnemuehle Bugra Butten - England - 2007.
Paper (fibre product) - Rives BFK - England - 2007.
Paper (fibre product) - Simili Japon - England - 2007.
Private press books - England - 2007.
Signed limited editions - England - 2007.
Subscription lists - England - 2007.
Treatises - England - 2007.
Typefaces - Monotype Van Dijck - England - 2007.
Also listed under
Old School Press, publisher.
Gloucester Typesetting.
BFK Rives (Firm)
Ludlow Bookbinders.
Büttenpapierfabrik Hahnemühle.
Collection of Margaret and Neale Albert (Yale Center for British Art)
Bookmark As
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