Lost & Found.

(Whittington Press.) RECKITT (Rachel) and Hal Bishop

Lost & Found.

Rachel Reckitt's book illustrations, including the complete set of woodblocks Engraved for The Mill on the Floss, & what was lost in their making.

Description: V/40 COPIES (from an edition of 225 copies) printed on cream Zerkall mouldmade paper, this copy additionally signed by the printer, John Randle, printed in black with the title and sub-titles printed in blue, with 42 plates of wood-engravings, these special copies with a folder of cloth and boards containing proofs of the 16 engravings for 'The Mill on the Floss', pp. xii, 57, [ii], royal 8vo, original half blue morocco, blue boards patterned with a Reckitt engraving printed in blue, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed, original prospectus and a note from Rosalind Randle laid in, the book and additional portfolio together in matching cloth and board slipcase, fine

Publication Details: Risbury: Whittington Press, 2010

Notes: Engravings made in 1938 for an edition of Eliot's work commissioned by Paul Elek, but never published.

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Price: £500

Subject: Private Press

Published Date: 2010

Stock Number: 74393

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