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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.

Accession number
PML 195204
Creator
Butcher, David, 1945-
Published
Lower Marston nr. Risbury [England] : Whittington Press, 1992.
Credit line
Gift of Caroline F. Schimmel and Stuart B. Schimmel in honor of William M. Griswold, 2008.
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 papers marbled by Colleen Gryspeerdt. June 1992. This is copy number."--Colophon.
Library has copy no. 113.
Description
xvi, 225 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), ports., samples ; 33 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed on colophon by: Joanna Jamieson [Abbess of Stanbrook], David Butcher, John Dreyfus, and John Randle.
Provenance
From the collection of Stuart B. Schimmel.
Binding
Bound in dark orange buckram with marbled paper sides by the Fine Bindery, in slipcase.
Classification
Department