Whittington & Matrix in America : an Exhibition of the Work of the Whittington Press & its Annual Journal Matrix, with its American Friends, will be held at the Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, New York City, 26 September - 6 December 2008.

Whittington & Matrix in America : an Exhibition of the Work of the Whittington Press & its Annual Journal Matrix, with its American Friends, will be held at the Center for Book Arts, 28 West 27th Street, New York City, 26 September - 6 December 2008.

Broadsides

AAR.FFM7.2566
Archives Collection
57.5 x 39 cm; 22.5" x 15.25"
2008
Barbara Henry
Whittington Press
broadsides, letterpress printing, linocuts
A letterpress printed broadside, printed in black and red, advertising an exhibition at the Center for Book Arts. The broadside is illustrated with a one-color linocut of a tree, with blooms of type pieces in its branches, and a composing stick resting at the base of the tree. The colophon reads: "Printed at Whittington in Caslon type, with a linocut by Barbara Henry, Curator of the exhibition." CBA has one copy, this is copy 1.