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Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: [Colophon]: "Simon Lawrence printed and published this book at his Fleece Press in late 1989 on dampened Zerkall mould made paper. Bill Hughes set the type, 10pt Spectrum, at Solo-Type. There are 220 copies bound in cloth and patterned paper created by Simon Brett, and 40 signed copies [this copy is one on the 40] bound in quarter leather which also contain four proof engravings signed by the artist. [signed]: Simon Brett." 5 1/4 in. x 7 3/4 in., frontispiece of a bookplate; title-page printed in red and black; contents with list of illustrations. [1]-[57] + signed colophon page, with the 4 proof engravings in a pocket in the inner back cover. Illustrated with the Simon Brett bookplate designs, and a mounted bookplate on p. [35]; with notes on the plates; chronology: 1969-89; and: The artist's approach Gray leather spine and sides with the title gilt-lettered on the spine, and violet & black patterned paper, designed by Simon Brett, over boards; gray-green endpapers, in the publisher's sturdy, gray cloth-covered slipcase. With the former owner's frog design bookplate (designed by Leo Wyatt) on the front paste-down. The very scarce signed edition with the four signed and numbered proofs [List of the bookplates featured]: John Gartner; Anthony Baker; Harry Robertson Page; Patricia Morison; Richard Thompson; David Collison; Clive Stewart-Lockhart; William Darby; Betty Wood; Rosemary Luck; P & D Colnaghi; St. John's School, Marlborough; Matthew Ellis; Hal Burton; Rebecca Parker; David Sloss; Nicholas Dudley; The Folio Society; James Davis; Peter Giffard; William R. Chambers; Peter Parker; H.R.H.; (Davis family); James Wilson; J. H. W.; Linda Sloss; Nicholas Ray; Alexander Schwartz. Loose prints in the special copies: Nicholas Dudley; John Gartner; Rosemary Luck; Peter Parker.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.