Sicily Edward Bawden Introduction Olive by Hoyle Walter (3 results)

A prospectus promoting the publication of 'To Sicily with Edward Bawden', in an edition of 350 copies casebound, signed and numbered. A single sheet folded in half and printed on all for pages with two illustrated pages. 285 x 185 mm. A prospectus in Very Good condition, with a few light spots to the upper panel and light creases, now in a clear, archival quality, protective display pocket.

Copy number '198' of an edition limited to 350 copies, signed on the colophon by Walter Hoyle and Olive Cook. Typeset in Melior and printed by The Aldgate Press on Rivoli paper. The main text is a facsimile of Hoyle's manuscript. Quarter blue cloth, colour printed illustration to upper board, backstrip with printed label. Housed in a paper over board slipcase. Imperial Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4-67 [blank] [illustration] [blank] [colophon] [illustration], illustrated throughout including four colour-printed and double-spread. TOGETHER with a copy of the prospectus laid in. A book in Fine condition in a Fine slipcase.

134/350 COPIES (250 written in pencil, in error), signed by Walter Hoyle and Olive Cook, printed on Rivoli paper, illustrations throughout including 4 colour-printed and double-spread, the main text a facsimile of Hoyle's manuscript, pp. 67, [4], imperial 8vo, original quarter blue cloth, colour-printed illustration to upper board, backstrip with printed label, paper wrapper with printed label on cover and backstrip hand-written, fine. A delightful account of a three-week sketching tour, with a competitive edge, which Hoyle took with his friend and mentor in 1951. With prospectus, also prospectus for Tryphema Pruss (Cook and Hoyle, Previous Parrot Press 1999), Church Street Gallery invoice for Bawden art, flier for art exhibition with works by John Malcolm Lewis, and hand-written postcard to Lewis from Hoyle regarding Bawden.