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247. OLD SCHOOL PRESS. [SOPHOCLES]. POST, Desmond. Antigone. Bath. The Old School Press 1996.
£48
4to. Original yellow cloth-backed flecked paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt on upper cover. Illustrated by Inger Lawrence. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 112 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator. Desmond Post says “Antigone, of all the royal house of Thebes, is the most deserving of recall. There was a need that I should cast her within the character that Sophocles made noble, so her words are spare and acute, and her spirit, questioning and defiant, does not succumb to the creeping despair. Her death is an affirmation of her self against the pitiless Fates. In asking Inger Lawrence to provide five of her striking wood cuts (cut on cherry wood), I think I have found a complementary visual voice about which the words ‘spare’ and ‘acute’ can also be used.”
248. PARTICK PRESS. HAMILTON, David. The South-Sea Brithers. Kilmacolm. David Hamilton at his Partick Press. 1992. £198
8vo., original buckram-backed marbled paper-covered boards. Title-page wood-engraving by John O’ Connor. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 300 numbered copies signed by the publisher. A typographical whimsy purporting to be the history of the fictional San Seriffe golf club. In 1977 The Guardian published a seven-page supplement celebrating the 10th anniversary of San Seriffe, a small republic in the Indian Ocean consisting of several semi-colon-shaped islands, two of which were Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. Readers were fooled by the fictitious territories which drew their names from printers’ terminology.
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249. PAULINUS PRESS. GOHORRY, John Hobbes’s Whale. Poems by John Gohorry with wood engravings by Simon Brett. Marlborough: Paulinus Press, 1988
£125
4to., blue cloth backed buckram boards with paper labels on spine and upper board. A fine copy in slipcase.
Number 35 of 50 special copies signed by the artist and author and accompanied by a signed and editioned proof set of the 3 wood engravings in a separate folder. Published four hundred years after the birth of Thomas Hobbes in the same county.
250. PENDOMER PRESS. BAWDEN, Edward. BLISS, Douglas Percy. Edward Bawden. The Pendomer Press. [1979].
£450
Small folio. Original black morocco backed patterned paper covered boards in slipcase. Many illustrations, including 11 coloured plates; a fine copy.
First edition. This copy is No. 18 of the 200 specially bound copies issued with a four colour lithograph by Bawden, signed by him, printed at the Curwen Studio. The lithograph is contained in its own printed card slip which, along with the book, is housed in the publisher’s slipcase
The first full-length study of Bawden’s work, including a bibliography of the artist’s illustrations for books, magazines, etc., compiled by Barry McKay.
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