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Whittington Press, Andoversford, first edition, the "ordinary" or "C" issue without samples of original wallpaper,1988. One of 40 ordinary copies from a limited edition of 120 copies. Quarter buckram and patterned paper boards (the design being Bawden's 'Birds Nest' pattern wallpaper, folio, 49 x 33 cm,. 18, [3] pp, plates (one folding). Butcher 98. A very elegantly printed work. From the introduction - "Between 1927 and 1933 the Curwen Press produced a series of wallpapers that challenged an industry dominated by a few manufacturers, and a public often anxious for change but uncertain where it wished to be led. Nearly all of these papers were the work of Edward Bawden.. [His and other artists'] experiments with the letterpress and lithographic facilities available at the Press occurred at the same time that it was producing some of the most distinguished everyday printing of their generation. In addition, pattern papers, many of them deriving from complex…
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Wallpapers by Edward Bawden Printed at the Curwen Press Hardcover - 1988
by David McKitterick
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- Title Wallpapers by Edward Bawden Printed at the Curwen Press
- Author David McKitterick
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition One of 40 copies
- Pages 36
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Whittington Press
- Date 1988
- ISBN 9781854280169 / 1854280163
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 90113502
- Dewey Decimal Code 747.3
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Wallpapers by Edward Bawden printed at the Curwen Press
by McKitterick, D. ; Bawden, E. ; Curwen Press
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- Used - Copy No. 110. A trifle bumped at the head of the spine, otherwise Near Fine
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- One of 40 ordinary copies from a limited edition of 120 copies
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781854280169 / 1854280163
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