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352. WHITTINGTON PRESS. HANSCOMB, Brian. Cornwall, an interior vision. Lower Marston, Herefs., The Whittington Press. 1992.
£198
Folio. Bound Japanese style in pale blue stiff wrappers with black ribbon, printed title label on upper wrapper; 12 double leaves (french-fold); 9 copper engravings by Brian Hanscomb, who also wrote the accompanying text; a fine copy in the original board slipcase.
First edition, limited to 135 numbered copies, printed on F.J. Head hand- made paper.
353.WHITTINGTON PRESS. GANT, Roland. Steps to the River. Poems by Roland Gant with eight wood-engravings by Howard Phipps. Risbury. The Whittington Press. 1995.
£250
Small 4to., original cloth backed patterned paper covered boards. With 8 wood engravings by Howard Phipps. A fine copy in slipcase.
First edition, limited edition of 200 copies, this No. XXXII of 40 copies with a set of signed artist’s proofs in a matching folder.
354.WHITTINGTON PRESS. RANDLE, John. A Book of Posters Printed at Whittington, 1977-1994. With an Introduction by John Randle. The Whittington Press. 1996.
£1,500
Folio, 435 x 625mm, original cloth backed paper covered boards. With 35 posters. A fine copy preserved in original fall-down back box.
First edition, limited edition of 125 copies, this No. 1 of 50 copies with 35 posters, and with an extra portfolio containing 10 more posters.
Over the years, the Randles set aside copies of their most beautiful or important posters in anticipation of this monumental work. The posters are printed in colours on various papers. Some are stencilled, some are hand-coloured, and some have original wood-engravings. Illustrators include Miriam Macgregor, Gwenda Morgan, and Hellmuth Weissenborn.
355.WHITTINGTON PRESS. A Bibliography 1982-93. Compiled by David Butcher with an Introduction and Notes by John Randle. Risbury. 1996.
£198
Folio, original green buckram backed patterned paper covered boards in original slipcase. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 380 numbered copies, this one of 244 normal copies.
356.WHITTINGTON PRESS. MACGREGOR, Miriam. Diary of an Apple Tree. Risbury. The Whittington Press. 1997.
£298
Oblong 8vo. Original morocco-backed patterned paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt. With 13 wood-engravings and a tail-piece by Miriam MacGregor. A fine copy.
First edition, limited edition of 385 numbered copies, this being one of 65 copies bound thus, signed by the author and with an extra suite of prints in a separate folder, the whole preserved in the original slipcase.
The extra suite of plates has 12 wood engravings rather than the 13 in the book, as the printed book reprises one of the plates.
357. WHITTINGTON PRESS. LOWNDES, Jon. Size. Lowndes. Printed at the Whittington Press. 1998.
£98
8vo., original paper wrappers. Ilustrated with 10 wood engravings by Hellmuth Weissborn. A fine copy.
First edition of this collection of seven poems selected by Jon Lowndes, limited edition of 20 copies signed by Lowndes. “This is just a little book, with seven poems. They give me a sense of Size - and are the seven poems that I would like to learn by heart”. The poems are by Carlos Williams, Shelley, Donne, Auden, Tsvetayeva, Shakespeare and Fainlight.
358. WHITTINGTON PRESS. WEISSENBORN, Hellmuth. London Scenes. Wood-engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. Risbury. The Whittington Press. 2001.
£198
8vo., original paper covered boards bound japanese style. Illustrated with 11 wood-engravings. A fine copy in original slipcase.
First edition, limited edition of 300 copies, this no. L of 60 copies with a set of proofs of the engravings, as well as a signed proof of another image engraved at about the same time as London Scenes.
“Hellmuth Weissenborn came to England as a refugee in 1939. London in the blitz made an unforgettable impression upon him, and these engravings, made during or shortly after the war, give a powerful impression of London as it was in the immediate post-war years - a city of smoking chimneys, shored-up buildings, tram lines and barrow boys - and now so much changed” (Whittington Press)
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