FINE PRINTING, PROSPECTUSES - A
collection of c. 60 prospectuses, catalogues, sample pages, invitations,
announcements, letters from publishers [to Lionel Dakers], etc. relating to
private press and limited edition books, including A note on the Latin preface
to Eric Gill’s introduction for his Engravings, 1929, by Walter Shewring
(San Francisco, Black Vine Press, 1964, with proof-reader’s corrections in
red), Memorial Window to Edmund Blunden 1896-1974 in the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Yalding, Kent ([No place, n.d.]), India Love Poems.
Tambimuttu. John Piper (London, Paradine Reprints, [n.d.]), Epithalamion.
A Poem by Ida Graves. With Associate Wood Engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton
offered by the artist and Basilisk Press (London, [c. 1980]) and Bible
Plants. Wood Engravings by Sister Margaret Tournour (Alton, Clarion
Publishing, 1999). Provenance: Lionel Frederick Dakers (1924-2003). For further information regarding provenance, please see the note to lot 597.
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