. Surplus pages from 'A Cross Section, the Society of Wood Engravers in 1987.' Eight wood engravings and the preliminary pages, with a sample of the patterned binding paper. Fleece Press, [Wakefield, West Yorkshire], 1988.

Price: US$93.75 + shipping

Description: Edition limited to 95 copies, 4to, pp. [40]; 7 wood engravings by Simon Brett, Peter Reddick, John Craig and others; tipped-in photographic portrait, plus 1 other tip-in; original full Laura Ashley cloth, printed paper label on spine; fine.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

[The Fleece Press].. Surplus Pages from 'A Cross section'. The Society of Wood Engravers in 1987.. Wakefield: Simon Lawrence at his Fleece Press, April 1988., 1988.

Price: US$124.66 + shipping

Description: One of only 95 copies bound in Laura Ashley cloth with a paper label to the spine and mauve endpapers. Eight wood engravings and the preliminary pages, with a sample of the patterned binding paper. Quarto, 290 mm x 210 mm pp. 48. A book in Fine condition.

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

Simon Brett (intro.), Ian Mortimer (Stanley Lawrence's obituary), Frank Martin. A Cross Section, The Society of Wood Engravers in 1988. The Fleece Press, 1988.

Price: US$318.01 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Print run limited to 225 copies. Pale blue (paler than the accompanying photo) cloth slipcase a little rubbed and sunned (graded as VG). Book: textured cloth spine with decorative boards, binding tight and contents unmarked. One small indented crease on one plate, being a possible production fault. No markings or inscriptions. Book graded as Fine. Introduction by Simon Brett. Obituary re-used from The Independent newspaper with photo of Stanley Lawrence tipped in opposite. Short essay on the development of the society, by Frank Martin. The essay is followed by the engravings, presented alphabetically by artist. Each artist has a single illustration on a single leaf apart from two which are included within text/acknowledgments. A lovely collection showing the wide variety of styles possible in wood engraving. See photos for list of illustrators. Further details available on request. (Ud1)

Seller: Morning Mist Books and Maps, Cirencester, United Kingdom

SOCIETY OF WOOD ENGRAVERS. A Cross Section. The Society of Wood Engravers in 1988.. printed and published by Simon Lawrence at his Fleece Press, Wakefield, 1988.

Price: US$1590.03 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Wood engraved title page, 41 plates and two vignettes. First Edition. Folio. [290 x 205 x 28 mm]. [24]pp. Bound by Chris Hicks in 2001 (signed "CLH" and dated at the rear) in black goatskin over bevelled boards and smooth spine, with multiple white goatskin onlays, tooled with black dots and roundels of various shapes. White calf doublures, tooled with gilt dots and roundels, and endleaves, plain edges. In terracotta cloth drop-over box with wooden panel on front lettered in gilt. Rather confusingly the half-title is lettered "The Society of Wood Engravers in 1987". The text includes an obituary of Stanley Lawrence by Ian Mortimer. The engravings are of the highest quality. Chris Hicks's binding is highly ambitious and is adapted from an engraving of two trees in a field by Garrick Palmer. It has to be said that the forwarding is less successful than the overall design. Three of Hicks's bindings are held by the British Library and illustrated in the BL Database of Bookbindings.

Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom