Confessions of a Woodpecker Volume 1 of The George Mackley Collection.

Small folio. Limited edition. #39 of 250 copies signed by the author/artist. Original quarter tan calf over marbled paper boards, gilt. Illustrated with thirty-two reproductions of wood engravings by Monica Poole, Joan Hassall, Robert Gibbings, Clifford Webb, John Farleigh, Gertrude Hermes, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Noel Rooke, Iain Macnab, Gwenda Morgan, Nora Unwin, Agnes Miller Parker and John Buckland Wright. Sixty-seven reproductions (on sixty sheets of paper) of wood engravings by George Mackley, with printed titles and dates, are loosely contained in a pocket at the back. Covers lightly rubbed and with some patchy stains to the calf. Very faint foxing towards the top edge of most pages. Near fine. Published to coincide with an exhibition of his wood engravings at the Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford in November 1981, this volume contains Mackley's lecture given to the Print Collectors' Club in 1967. (Ruari McLean's name is misspelled 'Rauri' at least twice in the text.).