[The Old Stile Press] Barnfield, Richard (author) & Hicks-Jenkins, Clive (illustrator) with an essay by Dr Peter Wakelin.
Title |
The Affectionate Shepheard. |
Date |
Llandogo: 1998 |
Publisher |
The Old Stile Press, |
Description
Copy number '4' of an edition limited to 200 copies, numbered and signed by the artist, Clive Hicks-Jenkins. Designed and printed by Nicolas McDowell using computer generated Bulmer types and polymer blocks to print the book by letterpress. Printed on paper hand-made by Frances McDowall, the furnish using a mixture of Abaca and Jute, with an admixture of reeds and irises for the endpapers. Illustrated paper covered boards, black spine titling. Housed in a folding slipcase covered in burnt orange cloth, lined with blue Ingres paper. Folio, 335 x 230 mm, pp. [1-6] 7-57 [colophon] [2, blank] with images throughout produced using a variant of the nineteenth century printmaking technique known as cliché-verre. An illustrated 'good wishes' card laid in and signed by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and Dr Peter Wakelin.
Condition
A book and slipcase in Fine condition.