Limited edition. Publisher's original saddle stitched cream card covers with black titles to the front cover. 20.5 x 16.5cm. Tipped in woodblock print of Lucien and Esther Pissarro's Ex Libris Bookplate, printed from the original block. Tipped in photograph of the original chase, type and block. Text set in Gargoyle Medium, a modern version of the Brook Type, printed from polymer plates. Postscript pasted to the rear inside cover. Printed at The Fleece Press by Simon Lawrence. A fine copy, the binding firm and bright, the contents clean throughout.
Issued in an edition of 120 copies. Printed here for the first time in a hundred years when the block and Brook type (also designed by Lucien Pissarro) were rediscovered by Rod Fursman at auction in 2004.
Stock code: 28204
£100
Upper Denby: The Fleece Press; Banstead: Lott Rare Books.
2018