Feb 23, 2012 - Sale 2269

Sale 2269 - Lot 276

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(WHITTINGTON PRESS.) Matrix: A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles. Together, 23 volumes. Profusely illustrated, including many printing samples, specimens and tipped-in plates, often printed in colors; occasional Whittington Press ephemera laid in. Comprising volumes 1 and 2 (both reprints), volumes 4-23, and the single volume Index to Matrix 1-21. 8vo, original printed wrappers or thin card decorative boards with printed dust jackets (vols. 7-23), very light occasional finger-soiling, else bright attractive copies. Lacking Volume 3. Norman J. Sondheim bookplates. Andoversford or Risbury: Whittington Press, 1981-2003
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A fine run of what is considered the essential periodical of the book arts of the twentieth century and a marvelous compendium of typographic and bibliophic miscellanea.