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Description: | Deposited by Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962.
Approximately 2,600 wood blocks, comprising the surviving collection of the Chiswick Press. Including many sets of ornaments and decorative initials engraved for Charles Whittingham (1795Ã-1876) by Mary Byfield and others. The collection also includes punches, matrices, and type for the proprietary founts of the Press (Basle roman and Caxton).
Album of proofs made from the blocks [1973] (32725).
A. Warren. The Charles Whittinghams, printers New York: Grolier Club, 1896 (2014).
Ornaments [specimens in use at the Chiswick Press]. London, 1954 (29228).
Decorative initials [specimens in use at the Chiswick Press]. London, 1954 (29107).
J. Ing. Charles Whittingham the Younger and the Chiswick Press, 1852Ã-59. PhD thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1985 (40872). | Subjects: | Printing equipment | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 020 7583 7073 | Telephone: | 020 7353 4660 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7407 | Go to resource |
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