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Creator:
Butcher, David, 1945–
Title(s):
The Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1956-1990 / David Butcher ; with an introduction by John Dreyfus ; and a memoir of Dame Hildelith Cumming by the Abbess of Stanbrook.
Published/Created:
Lower Marston, nr. Risbury, Herefordshire : The Whittington Press, [1992]
©1992.
Physical Description:
[7], x-xvi, 225, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Z232.S779 B88 1992+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3345250
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"This edition of 350 copies is set in 12-point Romulus (the headings in 14-point Haarlemmer) and printed at Whittington on Zerkall mould-made paper. 17 copies (i-xvii) are bound in inlaid Oasis leather, 35 copies (I-XXXV) are bound in full Oasis leather with marbled endpapers, 50 copies (1-50) are quarter bound in vellum with marbled paper sides, and 248 copies (51-298) are bound in buckram with marbled paper sides. The leather and vellum copies are accompanied by a separate selection of leaves and complete publications printed at the Stanbrook Abbey Press. Bound by the Fine Bindery, in paper marbled by Colleen Gryspeerdt."--Colophon.
Issued in slip case; some plates tipped inches.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-216) and index.
SML,AOB: Copy numbers xxiv of a limited edition of 350 copies. Signed by author and Joanna Jameson.
BAC: British Art Center copy is numbers 109 of 350. Bound in orange quarter buckram with orange marbled paper sides. In original orange buckram slipcase. Signed by David Butcher and Joanna Jameson.
Subject Terms:
Cumming, Hildelith.
Hereford and Worcester (England)
Printing
Private press books -- England -- Worcester.
Stanbrook Abbey. Press -- Bibliography.
Worcester (England) -- Imprints.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Worcester.
Contributors:
Dreyfus, John, writer of introduction.
Jamieson, Joanna, writer of added text.
Whittington Press, publisher.
Fine Bindery (Firm), binder.
Collection of Margaret and Neale Albert (Yale Center for British Art).
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