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177. HURTWOOD PRESS. OXFAM. Ox-Tails Hurtwood Press for Oxfam 2010.
£495
In 2009, 38 acclaimed authors joined forces to produce four brilliant collections of short stories, Ox-Tales, themed on the four elements: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. The star-studded cast of writers includes Kate Atkinson, Sebastian Faulks, Helen Fielding, William Boyd, John le Carré, Ian Rankin and Jeanette Winterson. Following the successful launch of a popular paperback edition, the authors all agreed to sign a unique limited edition box set of the four Ox-Tales books, with proceeds going towards funding Oxfam’s work fighting poverty and suffering around the world.
This highly collectable Ox-Tales box set has been produced in a once-only run of 200 numbered copies of which only 150 are for sale. The edition is printed on fine art paper, beautifully bound in cloth and board covers, and with the four books housed together in a special solander box.
Every box set has been individually signed by each of the following authors: Diran Adebayo, Kate Atkinson, Beryl Bainbridge, William Boyd, Jonathan Buckley, Jonathan Coe, Geoff Dyer, Michel Faber, Sebastian Faulks, Helen Fielding, Giles Foden, Esther Freud, Xialou Guo, Mark Haddon, Zoë Heller, Victoria Hislop, A.L. Kennedy, Hari Kunzru, Hanif Kureishi, John le Carré, Marti Leimbach, Marina Lewycka, Alexander McCall Smith, Michael Morpurgo, David Park, DBC Pierre, Ian Rankin, Vikram Seth, Nicholas Shakespeare, Kamila Shamsie, Lionel Shriver, Helen Simpson, Ali Smith, William Sutcliffe, Rose Tremain, Joanna Trollope, Louise Welsh, and Jeanette Winterson.
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178. HUTTON, Dorothy (calligrapher and illuminator). BRETON, Nicholas. Lines from ‘The Passionate Shepherd’ by Nicholas Breton. [Illuminated manuscript on vellum, signed at the end: Dorothy Hutton]. 1959.
£1,995
Oblong 8vo (143 x 180 mm.). Bound in marbled boards with a tan leather spine; 6 vellum leaves, the first and last leaves blank save for a presentation inscription and a brief colophon in blue (“Dorothy Hutton 1959”), calligraphic title-page in blue with a coloured vignette of a rabbit, 5 pages of calligraphic text in black, with side-notes in blue, the borders illuminated with attractive vignettes of birds, fish, rabbits, a fox, etc., one initial letter in gold; a very nice copy.
A short but sweet illuminated manuscript book by Dorothy Hutton, inscribed by her in reddish-brown ink to the original purchaser: “Stuart B. Schimmel of New York, this MS. book by Dorothy Hutton, 14 May 1963, with all good wishes”. Loosely inserted are the hand-written invoice and a letter from Dorothy Hutton to Mr. Schimmel thanking him for purchasing the book: “Should any idea for a little book occur to you - say Keats’ Sonnets or a bit of Chaucer etc. .. I would always consider the matter.” Also inserted is a letter from Dorothy Hutton to a Mr. Filby thanking him for recommending her work to
Mr.Schimmel.
Dorothy Hutton (1889-1984), calligrapher and painter, exhibited throughout Britain, including at the Royal Academy. She designed posters for the Underground Group and London Transport including a series of seasonal posters to advertise flowers in bloom across the city. Hutton was a member of the Art Worker’s Guild and an official artist to the Crown Office.
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