full dark-red Niger goatskin bound by Gray Parrot
2024 · Bar Mills, ME
by Milton, John
Bar Mills, ME: Ascensious Press, 2024. full dark-red Niger goatskin bound by Gray Parrot. NE. Ascensious Press. large 4to. full dark-red Niger goatskin bound by Gray Parrot. 44 pages. One of 26 lettered copies privatly printed by the Ascensious Press, of which this is one of 10 copies bound thus. Prospectus loosely inserted. A fine copy. A typographic 'tour de force' from the Ascensius Press.
Printed on Twinrocker handmade paper. The frontispiece is a portrait of the author, John Milton, cut into wood by Barry Moser.
Composition for the text was accomplished using a Welliver interface on the Monotype caster in 12 point long descender italic Janson. The running heads are set in the Merrymount "Dutch" type, cast by John Kristensen from matrices originally electrotyped by D.B. Updike for the printing of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. Display type on the title page has also been cast from the original matrices made for the two-line initials drawn by W.A. Dwiggins for the Book of Common Prayer.
Designed and printed in two colors throughout the press.
Areopagitica was published on 23 November 1644 at the height of the English Civil War. (Inventory #: 141234)
Printed on Twinrocker handmade paper. The frontispiece is a portrait of the author, John Milton, cut into wood by Barry Moser.
Composition for the text was accomplished using a Welliver interface on the Monotype caster in 12 point long descender italic Janson. The running heads are set in the Merrymount "Dutch" type, cast by John Kristensen from matrices originally electrotyped by D.B. Updike for the printing of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. Display type on the title page has also been cast from the original matrices made for the two-line initials drawn by W.A. Dwiggins for the Book of Common Prayer.
Designed and printed in two colors throughout the press.
Areopagitica was published on 23 November 1644 at the height of the English Civil War. (Inventory #: 141234)