Yale Center for British Art

Title:
A catalogue of fine press printers in the British Isles / edited & compiled by Tom Colverson and Dennis Hall.
Published / Created:
Headington [Oxford, England] : Oxford Polytechnic, Inky Parrot Press, 1986.
Physical Description:
[44] p. : ill. ; 21 x 22 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Z231.5.P7 C38 1986+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Rare Books and Manuscripts
MSS 17 Moss no. 15
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
1,050 copies.

"Richard Shirley Smith's 'Cornucopias' [1985, Messer Pietro Mio, Bain no. 268] illustrates the paragraph describing Michael Mitchell's Libanus Press on page 27."--Moss.

"A catalogue of fine press printers has been typeset by John Rose in 11-point Plantin on a CRTronic phototypesetter, printed litho by Parchment (Oxford), Ltd., and bound by Paperback Binders (Oxford), Ltd. The text pages of the catalogue are printed on 140gsm Kaskad Pintail Cream and Kestrel Corn has been used for the endpapers. The cover is printed on 350gsm Kaskad Lapwing Brown from Robert Horne Paper Company, Ltd."--Colophon.

Moss, R.W. Richard Shirley Smith, 15

Bain, I. Wood engravings of Richard Shirley Smith, 268

BAC: British Art Center Z231.5.P7 C38 1986+ copy bound in publisher's original printed wrappers.

BAC: British Art Center MSS 17 15 copy bound in publisher's original printed wrappers.

BAC: From the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith.
Subject Terms:
Private presses -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. | Small presses -- England. | Printing -- England. | Book design -- England. | Printers -- Great Britain. | Artists' books -- Great Britain. | Inky Parrot Press -- Publisher. | Decorated endpapers.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1986.
Contributors:
Colverson, Tom. | Hall, Dennis (Dennis Henry) | Shirley Smith, Richard, engraver. | Inky Parrot Press (1999– ) | Moss, Roger W., 1940– former owner.