A Box of Paints.

(Curwen Press.) SCOTT (Geoffrey) & Albert Rutherston (Illustrator)

Published by Printed at the Curwen Press for The Office of the Bookman's Journal, 1923

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Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United KingdomBlackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA

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FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 1,000 COPIES, 5 full-page colour-printed drawings by Rutherston, a tailpiece and two headpieces (of which, two colour-printed) by him also,a couple of spreads with light foxing, one of these with leaf nicked at fore-margin, pp. 36, royal 8vo, original quarter blue cloth with grey boards, backstrip lettered in gilt and a little rubbed at ends, ownership inscription to flyleaf (see below), good. Albert Rutherston's designs are charming. The copy of Private press collector and printer David Chambers, belonging to his youth (the inscription, as 'David John Chambers', is dated to March 1959).

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Title
A Box of Paints.
Author
(Curwen Press.) SCOTT (Geoffrey) & Albert Rutherston (Illustrator)
Publisher
Printed at the Curwen Press for The Office of the Bookman's Journal
Publication year
1923
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Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA

Oxford, United Kingdom

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Our premises are in the main Blackwell's bookstore, one of the largest and best known in the world, housing over 200,000 new book titles, covering every subject, disclipline and interest, as well as a large secondhand books department. The bookstore is in the centre of the city, opposite the Bodleian Library, Sheldonian Theatre, and many of the colleges and other university buildings, with on-street parking close by.

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Waterstones Booksellers Ltd trading as Blackwell's Rare Books

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