Price: £2,000
Subject: Private Press
Published Date: 1998
Stock Number: 74411
(Whittington Press.) (Marlborough College Press.)
THE MARLBOROUGH LITANY.
Description: IX/12 COPIES (from an edition 16 copies), using the sheets of the original Litany printed in 1949, in black, red and blue on Handmade Vellum Parchment paper by Dixon & Roe, the prelims and colophon printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade paper, this copy additionally inscribed in pencil and the colophon by the printer, John Randle, pp. [x], [12], 4to, original quarter vellum binding by James Brockman, backstrip lettered in gilt, tips of red morocco and boards of paste paper by Victoria Hall, edges untrimmed, bookplate to front pastedown, board slipcase with printed label, note from the printer on Press headed paper laid in, fine
Publication Details: Risbury: The Whittington Press, 1998
Notes: The introduction is by one of the work's original printers, Henry Ball; in his history of the Press, Richard Russell considers this one of 'the four or five most ambitious and successful books printed at Marlborough.
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