A Play (or Opera) Founded on 'The Song of Solomon'. Wood engravings [by] Jane Lydbury.

Published by Reading Room Press, 2016

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Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United KingdomBlackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA

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FIRST EDITION, 71/100 COPIES printed in black and blue on Zerkall mould-made paper, title-page vignette and 5 further wood-engravings printed in grey, pp. [20], folio, original quarter orange cloth, boards with a design repeating an Olive Openshaw wood-engraving, backstrip lettered in gilt, original prospectus laid in at front, fine. The distinctive and attractive typeface used throughout is Kock-Kursiv, which the colophon explains was 'first used by the Curwen Press in 1926 and rescued by Ian Mortimer on its closure in 1983'.

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Title
A Play (or Opera) Founded on 'The Song of Solomon'. Wood engravings [by] Jane Lydbury.
Author
(Reading Room Press.) REID (Forrest)
Publisher
Reading Room Press
Publication year
2016
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Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA

Oxford, United Kingdom

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Our premises are in the main Blackwell's bookstore, one of the largest and best known in the world, housing over 200,000 new book titles, covering every subject, disclipline and interest, as well as a large secondhand books department. The bookstore is in the centre of the city, opposite the Bodleian Library, Sheldonian Theatre, and many of the colleges and other university buildings, with on-street parking close by.

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Waterstones Booksellers Ltd trading as Blackwell's Rare Books

203-206 Piccadilly
Westminster, United Kingdom W1J 9HD