The Stanbrook Abbey Press 1956-1990 [A Bibliography]. With an Introduction by John Dreyfus and a Memoir of Dame Hildelith Cumming by the Abbess of Stanbrook.

(Stanbrook Abbey Press.) BUTCHER (David)

Publication details: Whittington Press, Lower Marston, Herefordshire.1992,

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This superb bibliography contains a substantial history of the press and lists 39 'A' items, 43 'B' items (commissions), 24 'C' items (illuminated folders), 27 'D' items (minor publications), 25 'E' items (prospectuses) and a final 'F' list of three unfinished books.

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230/248 COPIES (from an edition of 350 copies) signed by Joanna Jamieson OSB and the author, 5 illustrations on 3 plates, numerous examples of Stanbrook Abbey Press printing including type facsimiles printed at the Whittington Press, a small number of original pieces and several reduced photographic reproductions of examples of the press's printing, title and final engraving printed in yellow, pp. xvi, 226, [2], small folio, original quarter orange cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, marbled orange and brown endpapers, untrimmed, matching cloth and board slipcase, fine

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