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Published by The Hermit Press, Buxton, Derbyshire, 1995
ISBN 10: 187062940XISBN 13: 9781870629409
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Margaret Pilkington (illustrator). 1st Edition. 113pp printed in a limited numbered edition of 200 copies. This book is one of 175 of these that were quarter bound in brown buckram with light blue paper covered boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Sewn headbands. Russet end pages. This is copy #64. Front board engraving is The Poetry of Peasant Speech (1928). Frontispiece and numerous other engravings by Margaret Pilkington throughout. Decorated initials and the artist's Bookplate are also included. Tipped in a portrait of the artist by Stanley Spencer (1953) facing p11. Biographical essay by David Blamires. Essay by Patricia Jaffé - Margaret Pilkington as a wood engraver. Catalogue of artist's engraved work by Sarah Hyde (pp95-111). Appears unread.