Price: £38
Subject: Private Press
Published Date: 2018
Stock Number: 62853
Wolpe (Berthold)
Some Book Decorations,
discovered in a collection of line blocks belonging to his friend Vivian Ridler.
Description: FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 250 COPIES, folding plate at rear, pp. xiii + Illustrations, foolscap 8vo, original red cloth, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, newPublication Details: Oxford: S.P. Tuohy in association with The Perpetua Press, 2018
Notes: The majority of the blocks were produced for two Faber publications from the 1940s - Walter de la Mare's 'Collected Poems', and F. Le Mesurier's 'Sauces, French & English', with a few miscellaneous ones (the folding one clearly relating to Penguin Books in some way).
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