Forty Sheets Wind (2 results)

A single sheet prospectus promoting 'Forty Sheets to the Wind', an edition of 150 sets which comprise of a portfolio of forty separate broadsheets which display typefaces in context, and a booklet detailing the types, the papers and the texts. 11½" x 6", with one illustration. A prospectus in Fine condition, now in a clear, archival-quality, protective display pocket.

Set number '21' of an edition limited to 150 sets. The sets comprise of: (1) INTRODUCTION. Keyboarded and cast in 11pt Monotype Scotch by Peter Sanderson at the Whittington Press. Printed card wrappers, sewn in white thread, 280 x 165 mm, pp. [1-2] 1-16 [17-18], with seven tipped-in samples and the limitation page. (2) DUPLICATES &c: a printed card folio 280 x 165 mm, containing eight printed items. (3) a Nepalese paper folder with a label printed in Goudy Old Style type, containing five items listed on the label and entitled 'Subscribers' Edition'. (4) Forty-nine single sheet, printed items, contained, together with (1) (2) and (3), in a grey card folder within a patterned-paper covered board folio with a cloth bound spine and fore-edges, and black cloth ribbon ties (bookplate of Frieda Gumn). All contained within a slipcase constructed of boards covered with black paper, with grey paper-covered spine and edges, and a printed and decorated paper label to the spine. The five items in the Subscribers' Edition folder are 1. A compliment slip printed on Queen Anne handmade paper from the French Ruscombe Mill, using Stephenson Blake Perpetua; 2. 'The Silver Swan', a previously unpublished linocut by Jo Spaul printed on 225gsm Zerkall paper with 16pt Lutetia italic; 3. A late 18th-century wood engraving printed in an edition of fifty copies on Magnani paper; 4. Epitaph for a Politician - alternative design; 5. Spirit of Joy - typographically challenging version. The seven items in the 'Duplicates &c' folder are 1. The Birdcatcher, a poem by Ralph Hodgson; 2. The Rainbow Workshops, with an attached sample of patterned paper designed by Margaret Calkin James; 3. a linocut by J. Margaret Warrington with a verse from John Masefield's poem 'Cargoes'; 4. 'the cat & the fiddle, illustrated; 5. a poem by Robert Herrick 'Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.' ; 6. a rhyme written by Derek Burlow and illustrated by Peter Allan; 7. a large promotional card 'Spirit of Joy'. The forty-nine other items include broadsheets, and advertising, promotional and information sheets & etc, many with illustrations, including wood engravings and linocuts, and on a variety of papers.