Lost Found by Bishop Hal (6 results)

Hard Cover in Slipcase. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket ( as Issued ). Reckitt, Rachel (illustrator). Limited Edition. Rachel Reckitt's book illustrations, including the complete set of woodblocks engraved for The Mill on the Floss, & what was lost in their making. A UK Limited edition. One of 185 cloth bound copies, this being copy number 93. Set in 14 pt. Van Dijck at Gloucester Typesetting and printed at Whittington on Zerkall mould-made papers. Fine in matching paper covered slipcase. Unfaded, no inscriptions, tight and bright. A lovely copy. Paypal accepted.

FIRST EDITION, limited to 225 numbered copies; pp.xii,57 + colophon; 40 wood-engravings made in 1938 for an edition of Eliot's work commissioned by Paul Elek, but never published; very good in cloth-backed decorated boards, paper label, matching slip-case.

Whittington Press (illustrator). 8vo. half-bound in buckram and paper. 112. Trade edition, one of 225 copies. Lost and Found will show all sixteen of the blocks for The Mill on the Floss for the first time, as well as reconstructing the larger palimpsest images on the reverse of the blocks. As Hal Bishop remarked in Matrix 26, 'Despite the loss of the short central section of each block, Rachel's compositional whole is easily reconstructed by the eye.' The book will also include eighteen of her wonderfully energetic earlier engravings, showing how her style developed before she began The Mill on the Floss. Lost and Found tells the story of sixteen powerful illustrations that have remained hidden for nearly sixty years, and the highly unusual images that were sacrificed unneccessarily in the process. It brings to light the work of one of the century's most original engravers, whose work is little known partly because her financial independence made her relatively unconcerned about publicising her work. Limited to 185 trade editions which are bound in buckram and decorated paper sides. half-bound in buckram and paper.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reckitt, Rachel (illustrator). Limited. Hardback, in a slipcase. 27.5cm x 19.5cm. xii, 57pp. Frontis. Illustrated. An unnumbered copy from a limited edition of only 225 copies, printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. Very small mark to top of spine. An excellent clean copy.

Condition: Good. Original oasis half morocco with decorated boards, gilt lettered spine, illustrated with 40 wood engravings by Rachel Rickett, XII,57,(2) pages, printed in 225 copies of which 55 contain a set of proofs of the engravings for 'The Mill on the Floss' (this is number XLI/LV), half cloth slipcase, 4to. With prospectus.; Spine slightly discoloured.

91/185 COPIES (from an edition of 225 copies) printed on cream Zerkall mouldmade paper, printed in black with the title and sub-titles printed in blue, with 42 plates of wood-engravings, pp. xii, 57, [ii], royal 8vo, original quarter blue cloth with matching fore-edges, the boards patterned with a Reckitt engraving printed in blue, backstrip with printed label, slipcase, fine. Engravings made in 1938 for an edition of George Eliot's work; commissioned by Paul Elek, but never published.