AN ODE ON A FAVOURITE CAT DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLDFISHES

First edition. Limited edition. Quarter brown cloth over patterned paper covered boards, with black titles bordered in blue on a paper label to the upper board. Illustrated with a full page black and white tipped in original linocut by Ken Ferguson. Set by hand in Weiss type with Klang on the title page. Bound by hand using 200gsm Velin Arches paper and original Edward Bawden patterned paper from the Curwen Press. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps.

Issued in an edition of 150 copies of which this example is numbered 54 on the colophon. Originally published in 1748, Thomas Grey's poem is accompanied here by a beautiful linocut signed by the artist Ken Ferguson in pencil along the bottom edge.