[Rarebooks] FS: Lister, Hammer and Hand, Cambridge Christmas Book

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LISTER, RAYMOND (1919-2001). _Hammer and Hand: An Essay on the Ironwork
of Cambridge, with Drawings by Richard Bawden_. Cambridge: Printed for
his Friends by the University Printer, 1969. Oblong 4to. 8 5/8 x 10 1/8
inches. [vi], (42) pp. Half-title, frontispiece illustration, 20
captioned illustrations telling where in the city the objects depicted
stand; text clean, unmarked. Quarter dark tan morocco, illustrated paper
over boards, spine titled in gilt; binding square and tight, LACKS the
dust-jacket, spine faded. Muir Dawson's copy without distinguishing
marks. Very Good. 
$ 40 
LIMITED EDITION of 500 copies, printed on laid, watermarked Abbey Mills,
Greenfield paper. A selected guide to ironwork throughout the city of
Cambridge. "The decision to use a deeply toned paper was not an
arbitrary one. It was found to be necessary to provide this stronger
background to give the book cohesion; on a white paper the text pages
and the drawings seemed unconnected." Crutchley. Raymond Lister was an
English blacksmith-ironworker, author, artist, and the leading authority
on Samuel Palmer, the British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker.
During his career, Lister made the artistic ironwork for many buildings,
including King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and founded the publishing
company, The Golden Head Press. Crutchley, _A Printer's Christmas
Books_, pp. 34-37. 

Brooke Crutchley originally came to work at Cambridge University Press
as Assistant University Printer to Walter Lewis in 1930. In 1946
Crutchley himself became University Printer, retiring in 1974. Walter
Lewis and Stanley Morison had begun the tradition of The Cambridge
Christmas Books, a handsome series given by the University Printer to
friends in the trade and the University. Lister's _Hammer and Hand_
(1969, 5 years before Crutchley's retirement) embodies the transition of
the Cambridge University Press from hot-metal composition and
letterpress printing to filmsetting and offset, with a great expansion
of the university printing, which was achieved under Crutchley's
leadership. 

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