New Castle: A Brief Encounter.
by WHITTINGTON PRESS. MACGREGOR, Miriam
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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- Seller
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LONDON, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Risbury, Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1998. 11 pochoir illustrations coloured through stencils in water colour by Miriam Macgregor. One of 100 ‘possible’ copies, of which 25 were bound in vellum, this no. A11 signed by the artist. Set in Walbaum type and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. Pp. [20]. 4to., bound by The Fine Bindery in original red decorated paper covered boards with a pattern cut in stencils by the artist, printed title label to spine, housed in the original red paper slipcase. Fine.||Macgregor’s recollections from a day spent wandering around New Castle, Delaware, during an Oak Knoll fine press fest, accompanied by her enchanting pochoir illustrations. | One of only 100 copies
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- Bookseller
- SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8864
- Title
- New Castle: A Brief Encounter.
- Author
- WHITTINGTON PRESS. MACGREGOR, Miriam
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Whittington Press
- Place of Publication
- Risbury, Herefordshire
- Date Published
- 1998
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Whittington Press;Miriam Macgregor;Pochoir;Watercolour Book,Artists’ & Fine Press, Illustrated
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SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Fine
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- New
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...