The Sermon on the Mount
Oxford: The Limited Editions Club, 1977. Copy number 556 of Sixteen Hundred copies. Hardcover. [4], 87 numbered pages. Decorative cover. Some pages uncut. Includes Part One: Introduction; Part Two: The Sermon on the Mount; Part Three: Comments on Matthew's Understanding of the Sermon; and Part Four: Comments on Earlier Understandings of the sayings Collected by Matthew. The Monthly Letter of The Limited Editions Club, # 507, April 1977 (folded) is laid in. Also laid in is an informative sheet entitled Number Seven as this is the seventh in the Forty-fourth Series of fine books made for the members of the Limited Editions Club. Leo Wyatt has decorated the book with title-pate and title panels engraved in wood. The typographic plan was prepared by John Dreyfus, who selected Monotype Centaur, designed by Bruce Rogers. The page size is 8 3.4 x 12 inches, and there are 98 pages, folded doubled in the Japanese style. The text was composed and printed by letterpress at Oxford University Press, under the direction of Vivian Ridler, Printer to the University. The paper is Abbey Mills, made specially by Grosvenor Chater at their mill in Greenfield new Holywell in North Wales. The binding consists of a black cowhide spine, stamped in gold, with the sides covered with Cockerell hand-marbled paper specially made for this book. The top edges are gilded with gold leaf. The slipcase is covered with white Curtis Tweedweave and the front is stamped with the title-panel engraved by Leo Wyatt. The Sermon on the Mount is a collection of sayings attributed to Jesus found in the Gospel of Matthew that emphasizes his moral teachings. It has been one of the most widely quoted sections of the Gospels. Rowan Allen Greer III was the Walter H. Gray Professor Emeritus of Anglican Studies at Yale Divinity School. Professor Greer received his undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1956 and his doctorate in 1965. He joined the Yale faculty in 1966 as assistant professor of New Testament, was named associate professor of New Testament in 1971, associate professor of Anglican studies in 1975, and eventually professor of Anglican studies in 1981. Greer was the author of several books, including The Captain of Our Salvation: a Study in the Patristic Exegesis of Hebrews, co-author of Early Biblical Interpretation, Broken Lights and Mended Lives: Theology and Common Life in the Early Church, and The Fear of Freedom: A Study of Miracle in the Roman Imperial Church. As an authority on Anglican history, Greer also wrote Anglican Approaches to Scripture: From the Reformation to the Present. Leo Wyatt (1909-1981) was well known for his calligraphy-based wood engravings. John G. Dreyfus (15 April 1918 – 29 December 2002) was a British book designer and historian of printing who worked for Cambridge University Press and the Monotype printing company. He was also president of the ATypI trade association. Into Print is an anthology of his collected writings. Dreyfus was educated at Oundle School and Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1939, MA 1945). Dreyfus received the Gutenberg Prize of the City of Mainz in 1996. Vivian Hughes Ridler, CBE (2 October 1913–11 January 2009), was a printer, typographer and scholar in Britain. He was Printer to the University of Oxford at Oxford University Press from 1958 until his retirement in 1978; and also established his own Perpetua Press. Ridler was widely known in printing beyond Oxford. During the war, he had been elected to the Double Crown Club (1943) and on demobilization had lectured to the club on the typefaces of Eric Gill; in 1963 he served as its president. He was a founder of the Institute of Printing, an examiner in typographic design for the City and Guilds of London Institute, and served as President of the British Federation of Master Printers (later the British Printing Industries Federation), with its 4,000 members, from 1968 to 1969. Bruce Rogers (May 14, 1870 – May 21, 1957) was an American typographer and type designer, acclaimed by some as among the greatest book designers of the twentieth century. Rogers was known for his "allusive" typography, rejecting modernism, seldom using asymmetrical arrangements, rarely using sans serif type faces, often favoring faces such as Bell (at the time known only as Brimmer), Caslon, his own Montaigne, a Jensonian precursor to his masterpiece of type design Centaur. His books can fetch high sums at auction. The stationery firm of Grosvenor, Chater & Co. was established by Robert Grosvenor, a wholesale stationer in London. The firm was founded c. 1690 and is believed to be one of the earliest suppliers to the Bank of England, incorporated in 1694. The firm became known as Grosvenor, Chater & Co. in 1804. The firm acquired the Abbey Mill, in the Greenfield Valley, Holywell, Flintshire, in 1854. The mill, which had operated since 1770, produced high-quality writing and ledger paper. The mill closed in 1982, and in 1992, the Grosvenor Chater group of companies were dissolved. Condition: Very good / In slipcase--no dust jacket present. Slipcase as some wear and soiling.
Keywords: Sermon, Gospel, Matthew, Christianity, Typography, Book Design, Limited Edition, Vivian Ridler, Bruce Rogers, Leo Wyatt, John Dreyfus
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