[The Inky Parrot Press] Searle, Ronald

A two volume set, each volume numbered '209' of an edition limited to 246 sets. Signed by Ronald Searle on the colophon in 'More Scraps'. Set in Garamond by Charles Hall and printed on Zerkall mould made paper by Aldgate Press. 'More Scraps' has an illustrated light blue paper over card binding with illustrated green endpapers; all illustration are by Searle. 'Watteau Revisited' has an illustrated dark blue paper over card binding with illustrated pink endpapers. Both volumes are housed in a cloth covered board slipcase with illustrated paper side panels. Each volume is Quarto, 260 x 178 mm. 'More Scraps' has pp. [70] with a foreword by Roinald Searle, afterwords by Ben Shahn and Groucho Marx, and 52 illustrations. 'Watteau Revisited' has pp. [40] and 20 illustrations; the drawings were made in 1974 while Ronald Searle was working on a Watteau Mermoral Medallion. The drawings were exhibited in an Exhibition 'Peleringe a Watteau' in the Hotel; de la Monnaie (The French Mint) in 1977 but have never before been published.