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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed Limited Edition 'Exemplary Copy' limited to 12 copies, this copy No.vi/x Exemplary Copy, fully hand coloured, in hand coloured slipcase, with original artist's loose watercolour, this copy's watercolour is of 'Houghton Hall' signed in pencil by Lawrence. There are also 148 uncoloured copies and 28 part hand coloured copies all signed by John Lawrence and Peter Guy. Slim, tall 8vo, unpaginated with 60 pages only printed on one side + limitation page. Hardcover issued without dust jacket housed in slipcase. Hand-coloured paper covered slipcase in near fine condition. Book bound in hand-coloured paper covered boards in fine condition. Inside all pages, with top edges of blank pages uncut, in beautiful fine condition. John Lawrence has illustrated more than 200 books, both adult and children's ranging from Shakespeare to Alan Ahlberg including the best selling 'Watership Down' by Richard Adams and Philip Pullman's 'Lyra's Oxford' and 'Once Upon a Time in the North', twice winner of the Francis Williams Award for illustration. An exceptional copy of the Exemplary Edition. Very Scarce. Signed by Author(s).