The Inward Laugh.

(Fleece Press.) (BAWDEN.) YORKE (Malcolm)

The Inward Laugh.

Edward Bawden and his Circle.

Description: ONE OF 575 COPIES (from an overall edition of 750 copies), designed and set by Simon Lawrence, printed on PhoeniXmotion Xantur paper, with numerous colour illustrations, with tipped-in addendum. pp. 287, folio, original quarter orange linen by Smith Settle, boards with design of apple-green leaves interspersed with roundels, an adaptation of Bawden's 'Pigeon and Clocktower' pattern, backstrip with printed label, endpapers with Bawden-designed map of the town of Great Bardfield, green slipcase, fine

Publication Details: Upper Denby: Fleece Press, 2005

Notes: 'It is pleasing to be able to mark the Press' twenty-fifth anniversary with this book' (Simon Lawrence, colophon). A wonderful history of Edward Bawden, his circle and his times, containing well over 200 Bawden illustrations, the great majority reproduced in colour, and including several tipped-in plates. With keepsake printed in red and black with engraved vignette to commemorate Dr. Malcolm Yorke's talk about Bawden on 3.12.2005; and press slip regarding change of binding loosely inserted.

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