CLERIHEWS. AN UNOFFICIAL SUPPLEMENT TO 'BIOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS.' ( WITH HANDWRITTEN CLERIHEW BY NICOLAS BENTLE)Y

JOHN CARTER (EDITS.,) ( Nicolas Bentley / Edmund C

Published by Published By Printed By Will Carter At The Rampant Lions Press,, Cambridge,, 1938

About this Item

Oblong booklet. 18 by 12 cms.An unlimited edition, handset in 24pt. Walbaum and printed on various colours of Abbey Mills antique laid papers. Sewn square-back with covers printed white on black. Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Landscape 8vo, (32 pages printed on various colours of paper), very good condition in card covers, Handwritten Clerihew on last page written and signed by Nicolas Bentley, the illustrator son of the inventor of the clerihew Edmund Clerihew Bentley - about Jack Beddington. "We all know Jack / Can knock it back / But what he does on a bottle of fizz/ Is nobody's bizz. Nicolas Bentley." Carter identifies some of the Clerihew contributors Constant Lambert, C K Scott Moncrieff, Nicolas Bentley, Michael Sadleir, John Sparrow, Monica Ewer, Compton Mackenzie and E C Bentley himself. Very sl rubbing and very sl creasing at spine else sound clean VG.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CLERIHEWS. AN UNOFFICIAL SUPPLEMENT TO 'BIOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS.' ( WITH HANDWRITTEN CLERIHEW BY NICOLAS BENTLE)Y
• Publisher: Published By Printed By Will Carter At The Rampant Lions Press,, Cambridge,
• Publication Date: 1938
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signedes