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Lawrence, Simon. Forty-Five Wood-Engravers. Whittington Press, 1982.

Price: US$192.49 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardback, quarter cloth with marbled paper covered boards, complete with slipcase. 27 x 19.5cm. Introduction by John Lawrence. 45 wood engraved plates, each from a different artist. Number 136 of 350 copies printed at the Whittington Press. A small ink library stamp to verso of colophon, no other markings.

Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom

Lawrence, Simon with and Introduction By Joh Lawrence. Forty Five Wood Engravers (45). Whittington Press, Andoversford, Gloucestershire, 1982.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: One Quarter Cloth over marbled boards, Near Fine with light wear only in slightly unevenly faded slipcase. This number 69 of only 350 copies. With frontispiece engraving by Margaret Wells. Includes works by Chris Bayley, Douglas Percy Bliss, Marcus Beaven, John Biggs, and many others.

Seller: Winged Monkey Books, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.

Lawrence, Simon. Forty-Five Wood-Engravers [ 45 ]. Whittington Press, 1982.

Price: US$256.65 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Hardback, quarter cloth with marbled paper covered boards, complete with slipcase. 27 x 19.5cm. Introduction by John Lawrence. 45 wood engraved plates, each from a different artist. Number 97 of 350 copies printed at the Whittington Press. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. An excellent copy.

Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom

Lawernce, Simon | WHITTINGTON PRESS. 45 wood-engravers (Forty-five Wood-engravers); With an Introduction by John Lawrence. Simon Lawrence printed by The Whittington Press, Yorkshire, UK, 1982.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Imperial 8vo; 10 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches (265 x 190 mm); 12 pp. text set in Caslon type, printed in Whittington red and black; and 48 engravings by different artists printed from original wood blocks on Zerkall mould-made paper by John and Rosalind Randle and Miriam Macgregor. Quarter binding in green buckram, Whittington marbled paper boards by Smith Settle & Co., gilt rules and gilt title on spine; headbands, top edge stained green, rest untrimmed; green endpapers and matching slipcase, as issued, a little faded. Inside pages bright and clean, binding square. Copy no. 315 of 350, numbered and signed in ink on colophon page by Simon Lawrence and dated 24.10.82 [Butcher A2]. An elegantly printed and bound collection of exquisite and strong wood engravings by contemporary artists, including Howard Phipps, Enid Marx, Pamela Hughes, Rachel Reckitt, Douglas Percy Bliss and Margaret Wells.

Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.

[The Fleece Press] [Whittington Press] Lawrence, Simon.. 45 Wood Engravers. With an Introduction by John Lawrence.. Wakefield: Simon Lawrence, March 1982., 1982.

Price: US$318.25 + shipping

Description: One of 350 copies of which this is Number '221', hand-set in Caslon Type and printed at Whittington Court from the original wood-engravings on Zerkall mould-made paper by John and Rosaling Randle and Miriam Macgregor. Bound by Smith Settle & Co., original quarter dark green cloth, the boards covered in Whittington marbled papers and green endpapers, gilt rule to front and rear board and gilt lettering to spine, top edge green, other edges untrimmed. Housed in a board slip-case vwith slight sunning at opening. Imperial Octavo. pp. [xii] plus engravings, each printed on a separate page. A book in Fine condition in a Very Good slipcase.

Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom

(Whittington Press]) Lawrence (Simon, editor).. 45 wood-engravers. [Edited by Simon Lawrence.] With an Introduction by John Lawrence.. Crown 4to, 106pp., Printed by the Whittington Press, Andoversford, and published by Simon Lawrence, Wakefield, 1982., 1982.

Price: US$352.90 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Number 228 of 335 (350) copies handset in Caslon and printed Tyrian red on Zerkall mould-made paper. Illustrated with 48 wood-engravings by contemporary wood-engravers printed one to the leaf. Quarter moss buckram with gilt spine titling, Whittington marbled paper-covered sides, predominantly green, rust and blue. Green card slipcase a little faded at one edge. A very good to fine copy. Containing work by, amongst many others, Anthony Christmas, Peter Forster, Enid Marx, Howard Phipps, Rachel Reckitt and Margaret Wells.

Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom

LAWRENCE, Simon. 45 Wood-Engravers; with an introduction by John Lawrence.. Woolley,Wakefield: Simon Lawrence, 1982., 1982.

Price: US$359.31 + shipping

Description: Small 4to. Number 268 of 350 copies. Cloth backed marbled baords, Fine in slip case. Printed at the Whittington Press, this is a collection of examples by the leading wood engravers of the day.

Seller: Michael S. Kemp, Bookseller, Sheerness, KENT, United Kingdom

. 45 wood-engravers. Simon Lawrence, 1982.

Price: US$451.18 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Wakefield, West Yorkshire: Simon Lawrence, 1982. Hardcover edition. Sm 4to. Unpaginated. Illus. Limited edition, #237/350. Very Good book. Very Good dust jacket. Case sunned, Whittington Press mail order card laid in. (wood engraving, England) Inquire if you need further information.

Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.