A Tale of Two Benches [with extra wood engraving by Simon Brett]
Published by Alembic Press, Marcham, Oxfordshire, 2000
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Woodbridge Rare Books, Suffolk, United KingdomWoodbridge Rare Books
AbeBooks seller since August 28, 2013
Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 82.36
Quantity: 1 available
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24x17cm, 19pp. With a wood engraving by Robert Gibbings and one by Simon Brett printed in black from the blocks. Copy 55 of 120, signed by Claire Bolton, bound in quarter-brown cloth over oatmeal paper-covered boards, title printed in brown to upper board and blocked in gilt to backstrip, loose print of the Simon Brett engraving mounted on thin card in a printed paper portfolio laid-in. An extract from Robert Gibbings' 'Till I End My Song' concerning a bench built for his cottage garden, and an account of the firm of Pointers of Marcham which supplied the timber, and later went on to specialise in garden furniture themselves. The extra loose print is rather a mystery and may be a one-off issue or proof - neither it nor its printed wrapper were done by the Alembic Press and were almost certainly added to the book by its previous owner, the Dutch collector Dr Willem Keizer. Fine, with Fine loose print.
Seller Inventory # W2406
Bibliographic details
- Title
- A Tale of Two Benches [with extra wood engraving by Simon Brett]
- Author
- Claire Bolton
- Publisher
- Alembic Press, Marcham, Oxfordshire
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Illustrator
- Robert Gibbings and Simon Brett
Woodbridge Rare Books
Suffolk, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since August 28, 2013
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