[The Fleece Press] Rogerson, Ian.
Title |
Agnes Miller Parker, wood-engraver and book-illustrator, 1895-1980, with recollections of the artist by John Dreyfus. |
Date |
Wakefield: 1990 |
Publisher |
The Fleece Press, |
Description
One of an edition limited to 300 copies, of which 241 (this being one) were bound in quarter blue cloth and paste paper over boards by Claire Maziarczyk, with orange endpapers; 50 copies were bound in quarter leather with six extra prints, and 9 copies were bound by Angela James, Fellow of Designer Bookbinders, to her own design. The engravings were printed by hand on an 1853 Albion handpress on dampened Zerkall mould made paper. Text was printed in 11 and 12 point Garamond on a Heidelberg cylinder press. Housed in a cloth over boards slipcase with a printed paper label to one edge as well as on the spine of the book. Oblong, 235 x 280 mm, pp. [2, blank] [1-6] 7-88 [2, blank] [colophon] [blank], fully illustrated throughout, including seven engravings other than book illustrations, twenty-four illustrations from books and five other illustrations.
Condition
A book in Fine condition in a Very Good slipcase with slight edge wear.