The Predatory Bite of the Steel Nib. The Scrapbook Drawings of Ronald Searle.
Published by Church Hanborough: Predatory Parrot Press, 2005, 2005
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United KingdomOJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA
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Copy number '60' of an edition limited to 296 copies (of which 46 were fully hand-coloured by Sylvia Stokeld and numbered in Roman numerals). Signed by Ronald Searle and Wendy Coates-Smith on the colophon. Set in Garamond by Charles Hall and printed on Zerkall paper by the Aldgate Press. Orange illustrated paper over card wrappers, lettering to the spine, illustrated endpapers. Quarto, 270 x 178 mm with 60 drawings by Ronald Searle. A book in Very Good condition indeed, now in a clear, archival quality, protective display pocket.
Seller Inventory # 104560
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Predatory Bite of the Steel Nib. The Scrapbook Drawings of Ronald Searle.
- Author
- [Predatory Parrot Press] Searle, Ronald (Foreword and drawings) & Coates-Smith, Wendy (Afterword).
- Publisher
- Church Hanborough: Predatory Parrot Press, 2005
- Publication year
- 2005
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
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