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xii, 103 pp. plus 8 photographic 8 plates and 32 page-mounted specimens of patterned papers with descriptive text; 4to, quarter dark green Nigerian goatskin, t.e.g., paper sides in a pattern design by Lovat Fraser, gilt spine title, slipcase. With a separate specimen portfolio. The deluxe edition, this being copy no. XXXII of 85. The 32 specimens in the main volume are the work of 16 designers, including Edward Bawden, Harry Carter, Claud Lovat Fraser, Elizabeth Friedlander, Thomas Lowinsky, Eric Ravilious, Graham Sutherland, and Paul Nash. The separate portfolio covered in the same Lovat Fraser design contains 5 full-sheet examples of Curwen pattern papers folded in a pocket, including designs by Bawden, Lowinsky, Friedlander (2), and Enid Marx. In 1928, the Curwen Press published a full-sheet specimen book with 31 designs with an introduction by Paul Nash, which is reprinted in this work. The book and slipcase are fine, the contents bright and fresh. The portfolio shows a band of offsetting from the book's goatskin binding. Butcher 91. Seller Inventory # 4540
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