(Whittington Press) The Whittington Press: a bibliography, 1982-93, by David Butcher. With an introduction by John Randle. Small folio, pp.[viii],179[1] + colophon + 2 inserted duotone plates + 42 extra specimen pages, The Whittington Press, Risbury, 1996.
One of 80 (380) special copies bound in quarter vellum with marbled boards in a slipcase, with 42 additional tipped-in specimen leaves. Text set in Caslon and printed in black with occasional use of other colours on Zerkall mould-made paper. 27 wood-engravings (some colour), 2 linocuts, 2 pochoir illustrations, line-block illustrations, tritone plates, tipped-in specimens and type facsimiles, 12 tipped-in (mostly full-page), and 42 additional specimen pages from books, minor publications, broadsheets, etc., tipped-in at the rear. Quarter vellum, titled and ruled in gold down the spine, Whittington marbled paper-covered boards, orange, cream and bistre, by Rebecca Gryspeerdt, top edge trimmed, others uncut. A fine copy.
