First edition, first printing. Limited edition. Publisher's original patterned paper covered boards over red cloth spine, with titles on a paper label to the spine, in slipcase. Illustrated throughout with 30 black and white woodblock engravings by Peter Reddick. Two fold out pages. Printed by Simon Lawrence and bound by Smith Settle with paste paper by David Esslemont. Printed on Zerkall paper and set in Scotch Roman by Peter J. Sanderson. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Housed in the fine structurally sound slipcase.
Issued in an unnumbered edition of 220 copies. A collection of Peter Reddick's literary portraits including William Wordsworth, William Shakespeare and Robert Browning as well as illustrations for various Thomas Hardy Folio Society editions.
Stock code: 28139
£90