The mother's birds : images for a death and a birth

Worcester : Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1976

The text of this book was handset in "Spectrum" type and printed at the Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester, from August to October, in order to mark the centenary of the Press on 26 November 1976. The drawings, presented in their original size, were reproduced by offset lithography at Skelton's Press, Wellingborough. This edition of 240 copies comprises: forty signed copies printed on "Chatham" handmade paper, of which 10 sets of sheets numbered [1]-[10] have been reserved for special binding; thirty copies, numbers I-XXX, bound in full leather with endpapers of "De Wint" mould-made, and slip case; two-hundred copies on cartridge paper, of which numbers 1-50 have been bound in quarter-leather with "De Wint" paper sides and numbers 51-200 in "De Wint" paper covers. All the edition bindings were executed by George Percival of Leicester. Copies Numbers [1] and [2] were bound by Sydney M. Cockerell and George Percival respectively, for showing at "Stanbrook Abbey Press and Sir Sydney Cockerell: a centenary exhibition" held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from 11 November 1976 ti 13 February 1977. This is Copy Number [23]. [Gesigneerd door Meinrad Craighead en Hildelith Cumming printer].

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ill.

25 x 24 cm

object

cassette

11-01 C

pp eng Stanbrook Abbey 1976