A BORDER SPECIMEN

Borders

This book displays all the Monotype single border units which have been cast by the Press from its collection of 355 matrices, and in addition the book shows the various other Monotype and founders borders that the Press has. However, the book attempts to do far more than just catalogue the Alembic Press's border holding.

Border units
The borders are shown as individual units, and then as single lines, but then also as patterned one inch squares which reveal some of the many textures achievable by rotating or combining the units.
Border textures
The main text also covers a short history of borders, and a chronology of Monotype's border designs and their release. Full page examples are given of various border uses over the ages, and the de-luxe edition has a further section of unique samples created by other artists, printers and typographers.

De-luxe edition: 20 copies. 11 x 8 ins. 120pp. Quarter bound with printed border-patterned covered boards and a leather spine, in a slipcase.
Price £230 (inc post & packing) (out of print)

Main edition: 150 copies. 11 x 8 ins. 108pp. Quarter bound in cloth with printed border-patterned covered boards.
Price £149 (inc post & packing)

In sheets: 10 copies. £113 (inc post & packing)

Note: A Border Supplement was published in 2003 in the same format, with additional border specimens.

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This page written July 2000 by David Bolton and last updated 12 October 2014