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.
[7], x-xvi, 225, [3] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert.
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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.
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).