A Stickful of Nonpareil

A scarce privately printed work exploring the inner workings of Cambridge University Press, warmly illustrated and flat signed by Ardizzone, issued in a limited run of just five hundred copies. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Complete with the original glassine wraps.Flat signed by the illustrator, Edward Ardizzone, to the front free endpaper.A limited edition, being one of five hundred copies printed and bound at the University Press, Cambridge, for presentation by the University Printer to his friends in printing and publishing, Christmas, 1956.Illustrated with fifteen in-text illustrations and a vignette title page. Collated, complete.A nostalgic and humorous account of life and apprenticeship within the Cambridge University Press, offering insight into traditional printing practices. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely. One or two spots to endpapers. Artist's inscription to verso of front free endpaper. Glassine wrap, a little worn. Closed tearing to spine. Slight loss to spine, more so to head and tail. The odd small creases, closed tear, and chip to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two light spots to first and last few leaves and fore edge. Very Good Indeed.…