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Eric Ravilious: Landscapes, Letters & Design with a Foreword by Alan Powers
Ullmann Anne, Whittick Christopher & Lawrence Simon
£300
Two volumes. 9.5 X 12 ins. Vol. I 270 pp. Vol II 259 pp. Full cloth bindings.One of only 650 sets. Beautifully designed and set in Miller Display type and printed on PhoeniXmotion Xantur paper. Companion volumes to “Ravilious At War” which took 1939 as its starting point. These books collect Ravilious’s painted work and murals made from childhood to late 1939. Profusely illustrated in colour including folded tipped-in plates. As new in cloth covered slip case. Slip case shows very little wear – one or two fading marks. Also included, the pre-publication leaflet from Fleece Press (1500 copies printed, hand-sewn). Bookseller Inventory # 14812
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The St. Bride Notebook.
Incline Press. Ravilious, Eric. Archer, Caroline & Harling, Robert
£90
8vo. New edition of the forty-two wood engravings for the Kynoch Press Notebook of 1933, by Eric Ravilious printed from the original blocks. Also contains two essays by Harling and Archer. Bookseller Inventory # 14816
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pp. viii, 34, 8vo, quarter blue cloth, gilt lettering, blue and white Ravilious-patterned boards, printed front cover label. Pages untrimmed. 154/250 copies. Contains 6 tipped-in colour plates, and a facsimile of a letter from Edward Bawden. Bookseller Inventory # 14817
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Eric Ravilious :The Story of High Street
Powers, Alan and Russell, James.
£425
One of only 750 copies printed. Tim Mainstone has produced a reprint the 24 images and the text of Ravilious’s iconic High Street published 1938 together with essays by Alan Powers and James Russell, and a number of other illustrations. This book sold out on publication and now a highly collectible work in its own right. Book in fine condition, with slipcase slightly marked. Bookseller Inventory # 14818
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Oblong 4to. pp.284 + colophon. Blue cloth boards. One of 750 copies of which only 650 for sale. Edited by Ravilious’ daughter Anne Ullmann. A beautiful book with over 200 illustrations of Ravilious’ art and correspondence from 1939 to his death in 1942, including 150 plates. Scarce. Will incur extra overseas postage. Bookseller Inventory # 14819
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The Wood-engravings of Paul Nash
Greenwood, Jeremy, intro by Simon Brett
£400
Quarter grey cloth and patterned paper boards and grey cloth slipcase. 141pp. 108 illustrations. One of 60 special edition with G10 on pg 33 printed from the original block. Fine in fine slipcase. Bookseller Inventory # 14820
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Ravilious Engravings
Greenwood, Jeremy.
£400
Grey cloth boards with silver lettering, 287 pp, One of 800 copies of the standard edition. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Grey card slipcase shows minimal shelf wear. Bookseller Inventory # 14821
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Mr Derrick Harris
Brett, Simon
£170
One of a limited edition of 280 copies on Zerkall mouldmade paper; illustrates the life & work of Derrick Harris, with 50 wood engravings by Harris; plus portfolio contains a set of nine coloured wood engravings for a never-published book ‘Royal Flush’ (text now lost); plus a booklet of three additional b&w engravings. All three as new. Contained in a fitted cream cloth covered clamshell box approx. 16″ x 12.5″. Box shows one or two minor marks. Bookseller Inventory # 14822
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Quiet Spirit, Skillful Hand, the Graphic Work of Clare Leighton
Jonathan Stuhlman
£300
Very light wear to cover edges, rear corner bumped. Bookseller Inventory # 14823
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