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Printed for Presentation to the Members of the Roxburghe Club. 2000. Royal folio, 2 vols., xix,[i],181,[3]; [viii]pp., followed by 312 full-page coloured facsimile plates, 160 illustration, Lord Wardington’s name printed in red in the roll of members, orig. red Roxburghe morocco, spines lettered in gilt, vellum corner tips, slip-cases. Only a few of the coloured illustrations and some of the black-work embroidery designs have ever been reproduced but here Sir Paul Getty has commissioned a magnificent two-volume monograph by Nicholas Barker with many full-size colour reproductions for presentation to his fellow members of the Roxburghe Club. The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian is also a tribute to the work of the printers and binders who have given it form. Like the original it is bound in two volumes. Over 300 of the pages of the ‘Great Book’ have been reproduced in superb facsimile by John Parfitt at the Westerham Press, using up to twelve different colours to achieve a faithful likeness to the original. These have been supplemented with 160 further illustrations, reproduced in black and white and colour, showing the manuscripts, prints, and books, from which Trevilian drew his inspiration, and the embroidery, surviving and preserved in contemporary portraits, analogous to his patterns. The text has been set in Caslon’s Great Primer, cast by Gloucester Typesetting Services, and printed in red and black throughout by Susan Shaw at the Merrion Press. |
