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The English Scene
by John O'Connor
2004. Edition of 200.
12.5 x 9.75" unpaginated. Book half leather with illustrated paper covered boards. Matching paper covered slip case with cloth top and bottom sides. Portfolio half cloth over paper-covered boards.

This copy of one of the 55 in the edition that have a special binding and are accompanied by a portfolio of four prints ( two color prints, a proof for the cover illustration, and one of nine engravings hand colored and initialed by the artist in 2002). Colophon initialed by O'Connor. Published in the same month as O'Connor's death in 2004. Printed on Fabriano and Hahnemuhle Ingres and Oxford cream laid papers. Bound by the Fine Bindery.

A collection of some of the early wood engravings of John O'Connor with descriptive text transcribed from a conversation with the artist. The book contains thirty three large wood engravings and four smaller one, many of which are printed with off-set color.
$670

Mattioli's Herbal
A Short Account of Its Illustrations, with a Print from an Original Woodblock.
By John Bidwell. 2003. Edition of 350
9" x 12", 18 pages. Half-bound in buckram and decorated papers. Print inserted into a pocket in the back board. Set in 16-point Monotype Centaur and Arrighi. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. Bound in boards covered in Ingres paper printed with a design based on the accompanying woodcut of asarum. Produced by Whittington for Pierpont Morgan Library in New York on the occasion of its exhibition 'Picturing Natural History Flora and Fauna in Drawings, manuscripts, and Printed Books' on view 12 February to 4 May 2003. The exhibition includes an original woodblock cut for the 1562 herbal of Pietro Andrea Mattioli. The print accompanying this edition is printed from that same woodblock and on a hand-made paper similar in tone and texture to the sixteenth-century papers of early herbals. John Bidwell traces the origins of Mattioli's text, recounts how it was translated and revised, and notes scientific applications of the woodcuts. Edition of 350 copies with 20 special and 50 standard for Whittington. These have the specially printed joint title-page imprint. This is one of the 50 standard copies.
$225

Deluxe Edition: Half-bound Oasis leather & hand-coloured boards, in case. Print, hand-coloured by Louisa Hare, inserted into a pocket in the back
board. (Last Copy!) $350

Gwenda Morgan. The Diary of a Land Girl 1939-1945
2002. Edition of 350
8" x 11", 153 pages. Illustrated with Morgan's engravings.
Standard edition, half-bound in green cloth, in slipcase. $215
Deluxe edition, half-bound in Oasis leather, in slipcase. Includes folio with proofs of selected engravings. $500

Cornwall, An Interior Vision
By Brian Hanscomb
1992. Edition of 135
10" x 14", 22 pages. SIGNED by Hanscomb on colophon. Bound Japanese style with black ribbon in stiff gray wrappers. Text and engravings by Hanscomb. Contains eight copper engravings accompanied by related text. Printed on hand-made paper. Deluxe edition with extra set of prints in slipcase.
$475

Edward & Helen Thomas Personal Letters
Selected by R. George Thomas
Edition of 200
7.75" x 10.75", 22 pages
A foreword by Myfanwy Thomas. Six letters of the Thomases'. Six wood-engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn entitled 'Country Scenes.' Set in Caslon type. Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. Case bound decorated paper covers.
$72

The Wood-engravings of John O'Connor
With a commentary by Jeannie O'Connoh
1989. Edition of 350
10" x 14", 83 pages
Overview of Five decades of John O'Connor's work. Printed from original blocks where possible. Several in two colors. Quarter bound in buckram, in slipcase. $250

Britten's Aldeburgh
John Craig. After a long creative and publishing process, we finally have this handsome edition in. It contains over forty wood engravings by Craig with his accompanying text. Begun as an octavo book of black and white engravings with text, it grew into a quarto. The book presents a series of double page spreads, each illustrating a stage in Benjamin Britten's walks around Aldeburgh during which he composed much of his music. Some of the engravings are printed in colored inks, some on colored papers, all in a variety of shapes and sizes designed around the conception of each individual spread. Bound in crash canvas and housed in a slipcase. (13.5 x 10 inches.)
$275

Matrix
An annual review for printers and bibliophiles that has been published for seventeen years. Always features informative articles plus any of variety of illustrations in many forms-etchings, pochoir, wood engravings, various papers, tipped-in photographs, and prints-the works! Matrix 18 includes articles such as "An English Printer in Paris" by Michael Caine, "Dinner with the Wangs: Ceremonial Papers of the Chinese" by Roderick Cave, and woodcuts by Rachel Reckitt.
Matrix 23 $250 Standard edition
Matrix 23 $675 Deluxe edition
Matrix 22 $225
Matrix 19 $240
Matrix 11 $225
Matrix 7 $400
Matrix 6 $250

Type & Typography
2003 Highlights from Matrix over twenty years of publication.
Trade Edition $60
Special Version $250
Deluxe Version $725

The Whittington Press, A Bibliography 1982-93. by Butcher, David $250

Whittington Press Out of Print Titles:
• Matrix 21: A Review for Printers & Bibliophiles
• Fine Papers at the Oxford University Press
• Busy as a Bee
• Matrix 9
• Matrix 14
• Matrix 18