Gogmagog Press - Cox (Morris) Crash!

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Crash! An expeiment in blockmaking and printing. With prints by several processes by Morris Cox.  12mo, 26 leaves (joined at the fore-edges), Completed on New Year's Eve, 1963, by Morris Cox, Stratford.

Set in Bodoni Ultra Bold Italic. One of 80 copies in black, red, blue and olive-grey (the illustrations in many colours). This, one of 65 copies bound in pale drab wrappers printed in brown on the spine (some loss to the foot of the spine). A very good copy.

Eight double-page colour prints in varied techniques, arranged in the loose form of a story with connecting sentences in bold in the white spaces below. At the end Morris Cox briefly explains how each was done. His methods range from nature-printing to 'Disk inked with brush. Background lightly sprayed with petrol before printing.'

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