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86. FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN. Exhibition of Books & Modern Books & Writers. National Book League. 1951.
£98
8vo., 2 volumes, bound together in buckram backed patterned paper covered boards, with leather spine label. Original front stiff card wrappers bound in (lower wrappers removed). A few marginal pencil marks otherwise a very good copy.
First edition of these two Festival of Britain exhibition catalogues. The Exhibition of Books was held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Modern Books & Writers was held at the National Book League.
An interesting pair of catalogues showing the contrast between British Books throughout History with New Modern writers.
87. FLEECE PRESS. DONNE, John. Mud Walls. Excerpts from the Sermons of John Donne. Wakefield. Fleece Press. 1986.
£98
8vo. Original paper-covered boards. With 5 wood-engravings by Jane Lydbury. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 200 copies printed by hand by Simon Lawrence on Barcham Green Charter Oak. Inscribed by Simon Lawrence to the artist Peter Foster, “For Peter from Simon 4.9.86”
88. FLEECE PRESS. STEVENS, Anne. Claughton Pellew. Five wood engravings printed from the original blocks with a biographical note by Anne Stevens. The Fleece Press. 1987.
£298
Folio, original wrappers, the prints themselves in individual card folders, all preserved in cloth fall-down back box.
First edition limited to 150 sets. With an Introduction by John Nash. Claughton Pellew was born in Redruth, Cornwall; he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London alongside Paul Nash and Nash’s brother John. He converted to Roman Catholicism and became a conscientious objector during World War I. Many of his works had a religious theme. His output was not large, but it was strikingly individual, often using a white line technique.
89. FLEECE PRESS. HANSARD, Luke. The Auto-biography of Luke Hansard, written in 1817. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Robin Myers, and wood-engraved illustrations by John Lawrence. Wakefield. The Fleece Press. 1991.
£98
Oblong 8vo. Original red cloth-backed paper-covered boards illustrated with John Lawrence engraved vignettes. A fine copy in original slipcase, with additional loose signed John Lawrence engraving in a sleeve at the rear.
89 Limited edition of 250 copies
90. FLEECE PRESS. BLYTHE, Ronald. First Friends. Paul and Bunty, John and Christine - and
Carrington.Huddersfield: The Fleece Press. 1997.
£250
Folio. Original quarter reddish-brown cloth, Paul Nash pattern paper boards, printed spine label; many colour and black-and-white illustrations after Dora Carrington, John and Paul Nash, etc., a fine copy in board slipcase.
First edition, limited to 300 copies. 88
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