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A paper snowstorm: Toni Savage and the Leicester broadsheets

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Contains examples of printed work as the main illustrations. The book includes a complete listing of all the broadsheets issued with Leicestershire imprints to the end of 2004. Illustrated with more than 35 facsimiles tipped onto the pages, as well as woodcuts, engravings, line drawings and photographs of the printers at work. The portfolio contains ten original Leicester Broadsheets: five Phoenix Broadsheets from the press of Toni Savage and at least one each from Alan Brignull, Derek Deadman, Hans van Eijk, Rigby Graham and Cynthia Savage. Printed paper over boards with a cloth spine.

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    Oldham: Incline Press, 2005

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    • "All sheets loose in the accompanying folder are genuine. As explained in the acknowledgements, the sheets tipped onto the pages of this book were forged here at Incline Press. We have roughly followed the original processes to give a real sense of the original sheets. Ours, on examination, will differ from the originals in at least one of the major respects: typeface, paper, and use of colour in paper or ink. The text is printed on Magnani paper in Bembo types, supplied respectively by John Purcell Paper in London and Harry McIntosh in Edinburgh. The Block Shop in Manchester made new magnesium printing blocks as necessary, and the binding was carried out in the Bradford workshop of Stephen Conway. Of an edition of two hundred copies, this is" ... -- Colophon. With signatures by Rigby Graham and Derek Deadman.
    • Issued in slipcase.

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