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Herefordshire Whittington Press 2006 Small quarto. 209pp. One of 80 deluxe copies of this annual review of the book arts, specially bound and with an extra portfolio of four wood engravings by Rachel Reckitt. With numerous tipped-in items including paper and printing samples, llustrations, and reproductions of black and white and color photographs. The theme of this issue is typography, featuring essays by Paul Nash, Roderick Cave, Joe D'Ambrosio, John Randle, Hal Bishop, and many others. Bishop's brief essay about Rachel Reckitt's wood engravings for an edition of George Eliot's The Wood on the Floss is illustrated with four of these engravings, tipped in; the extra portfolio contains another four of the engravings, along with explanatory text by John Randle of Whittington Press. Tucked into a pocket in the rear are a signed print entitled "Whittington Show" and the original dustwrapper. Bound in quarter russet leather and marbled-paper boards; extra engravings and accompanying text handsomely bound in light purple wrappers with external stitching on the spine and the artist's name embossed on the front cover. Mint, in the original slipcase. Prospectus laid in.

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