Boxwood & Graver. A Miscellany of Blocks. by LANE CHRISTMAS BOOK. [SCHMOLLER, Hans.]

FIRST EDITION, 1500 copies on Hosho-Shi paper french-folded to provide 35 leaves printed on rectos only at Westerham Press; 31 engravings by Reynolds Stone, Keeling, Harris, Reiner, Roy Morgan, Gentleman & Diana Bloomfield, printed from the original blocks; light spotting on endpapers, otherwise a very good copy in original japon-backed wood veneer boards, corners slightly bumped. Designed by Hans Schmoller who provides a short foreword (which appears over Allen Lane's name): 'I had long felt the need to print the wood engravings I had commissioned for Penguin covers really finely on fine paper. Hence this book.' 'It's a beautiful book, and an excellent idea.' Gili 12, PLA Autumn 1984.