A Play (or Opera) Founded on 'The Song of Solomon'.

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A Play (or Opera) Founded on 'The Song of Solomon'.

Wood engravings [by] Jane Lydbury.

Description: FIRST EDITION, 71/100 COPIES printed in black and blue on Zerkall mould-made paper, title-page vignette and 5 further wood-engravings printed in grey, pp. [20], folio, original quarter orange cloth, boards with a design repeating an Olive Openshaw wood-engraving, backstrip lettered in gilt, original prospectus laid in at front, fine

Publication Details: Quenington: Reading Room Press, 2016

Notes: The distinctive and attractive typeface used throughout is Kock-Kursiv, which the colophon explains was 'first used by the Curwen Press in 1926 and rescued by Ian Mortimer on its closure in 1983'.

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