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BOOKBINDERS' FINISHING TOOL MAKERS 1780-1965
Conroy, Tom
First edition. This unique directory lists hundreds of toolcutters and their firms who worked from 1780 to 1965. With brief biographies of each craftsman or firm, the author illustrates many of their original trade marks and advertisements. He also lists the dates when they were active. There are opening essays on "What Finishing Tools Are and How they were Used"; "How Finishing Tools Are Made"; "Tools of the Makers and Toolmakers' Tools," etc. This well-researched and illustrated directory is divided into three main sections: Toolcutters in the British Isles; Toolcutters in Continental Europe; and Toolcutters in North America & Australia. Tom Conroy is an internationally known design bookbinder who has been collecting information on finishing tools for many years. This work, with a foreword by Marianne Tidcombe, is for anyone interested in binding history and the collecting world of old finishing tools.
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MATRIX 21 WINTER 2001.
Printed in an edition limited to 825 copies, this being one of 745 copies which are bound in stiff paper wrappers. This issue of Matrix contains thirty articles including "Memories of an Apprentice Typefounder," by James Mosley, "Engraving a Dead Man," by Gaylord Schanilec, "Cockerel's Forgotten Partner, and Eric Gill's Last Commission," by Roderick Cave, "Frederic Prokosch: a Passion for Self-Publishing," by James Lorson, "Book-jackets," by Michael Harvey, "Earth Pigments in Plant Papers," by Maureen and Brian Richardson, "., ; : ' ( ) ! ?" by John Grice, "Private Press Books 2000: a Review," by David Chambers and more. Illustrated throughout with photographs, wood engravings, and sample papers as well as an extensive variety of tipped-in specimens printed on special papers. The two-color wood-engraving on the dust jacket is "Blacksmiths II," by Rachel Reckitt. Prospectus for the Matrix index scheduled for publication in 2002 is loosely laid-in.
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