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One rainy day

Title
One rainy day / John Randle.
Author
Randle, John (Leslie John)
Publication
[Whittington, Gloucestershire] : The Whittington Press, 2000.

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TextRestricted use Rare Books 21-483Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Additional Authors
  • Walters, Edward, 1899-1977
  • Macgregor, Miriam
  • Whittington Press, printer, publisher.
Description
6 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
An autobiographical sketch by John Randle, who learned letterpress printing at the Marlborough College Press while a student at the school in the 1950s and founded the Whittington Press in 1971.
Subject
  • Randle, John
  • Marlborough College Press
  • Whittington Press
  • Letterpress printing > England
  • Private presses > England
  • Private presses
  • England
Genre/Form
  • Private press books (Publishing) – England – Whittington – 2000.
  • Privately published books (Publishing) – England – Whittington – 2000.
Note
  • "100 copies set in 22 & 14 point Caslon and printed with an initial letter O by Miriam Macgregor at Whittington for the Oxford Guild of Printers on Zerkall Rosa paper. A further 150 are printed in a slightly larger format for the Press, 40 of which are bound in boards and contain a signed engraving by Miriam Macgregor, and an engraving by Edward Walters, who was in charge of the Marlborough College Press 1942-6. This print is from one of a number of his engraved blocks found discarded at the Press c. 1958, and now at Whittington. Another appears on the opposite page. January 2000" -- colophon.
Binding (note)
  • Bound in publisher's brown self wrappers, with publisher's device [?] on front wrapper.
Call Number
Rare Books 21-483 no. 2
OCLC
44522969
Author
Randle, John (Leslie John), author.
Title
One rainy day / John Randle.
Imprint
[Whittington, Gloucestershire] : The Whittington Press, 2000.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Binding
Bound in publisher's brown self wrappers, with publisher's device [?] on front wrapper. NN
Local Note
One of two pamphlets in a slipcase.
Added Author
Walters, Edward, 1899-1977, wood-engraver.
Macgregor, Miriam, wood-engraver.
Whittington Press, printer, publisher.
Research Call Number
Rare Books 21-483 no. 2
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