£25.00
A limited edition of 100 copies signed by Stephen Fry
A limited edition of a relica page from the Gutenburg Bible has been produced to raise funds for the St Bride Library. The pages were printed on Alan May's one-pull press that featured in the Stephen Fry BBC programme, The machine that made us.
The Wavelength Films programme on the Gutenburg and the invention of printing, televised in 2008, commissioned Alan May to build a press, which was filmed in the making. The press was not an ordinary wooden common press, but embodied Alan's experimental research into how an early one-pull press would have been made and operated. For the programme, replica type for one page of the Bible was commissioned from the Dale Guild typefoundry in the US. The press and the type are now housed in the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading.
Together with Martin Andrews, who also appeared on the programme, and Peggy Smith, Chairman of the Printing Historical Society, Alan printed 100 copies of the replica page in a mould-made rag paper. Stephen Fry has generously signed each copy.
41 x 30 cm (spread 41 x 60 cm), b/w reproduction.