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The Casquets - The Most Dangerous Channel Islands : The Publisher's Copy With 2 Loose Coloured Proofs

The Casquets - The Most Dangerous Channel Islands : The Publisher's Copy With 2 Loose Coloured Proofs

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The Casquets - The Most Dangerous Channel Islands : The Publisher's Copy With 2 Loose Coloured Proofs - 1972

by Graham, Rigby

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
Used - Near Fine

Description

The Sole Printing : Brewhouse Press, Wymondham : 1972. Written & Illustrated by Rigby Graham. Designed, printed and bound by the Brewhouse Press. This is number 4 of only 30 copies issued, of which only 18 copies were for sale. This is the publisher Trevor Hickman s personal copy with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Signed at the limitation page by Rigby Graham (author and illustrator), Trevor Hickman (publisher, binder and printer), Peter Bonser, and also the typesetters and printers Trevor Blood, Don Humberstone, Peter Merry & Alan Tyrell. The Ortac end-papers and slipcase are decorated with special marbled paper designed by Rigby Graham. The book is quarter bound in dark green oasis morocco with gilt titling, with the boards in blue hessian cloth. There is an embossed edged zinc plate, designed by Rigby Graham affixed to the front board as issued. Pages 2 & 3 are original nautical charts of the Casquets. 11 drawings and 13 lithos by Rigby Graham. The book initially retailed with a price of £100. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. There is some minor offsetting on the opposite page of some of the colour illustrations, as usually encountered otherwise internally clean. Slight scuffing to the zinc plate on the front board from usage (The plates affixed to the boards were the actual plates used in the printing process). Light toning to the leather spine and minor edge-wear to the slipcase. A sharp copy of a scarce title. Loosely inserted are two coloured proofs. This book was the pièce de résistance of The Brewhouse Press and was the subject of the second (Stanley) Morrison lecture given at the Faculty of Art and Design at Manchester Polytechnic on 19th November 1974. A very handsome production and now very elusive. Rigby Graham MBE (2 February 1931 7 May 2015) was an English landscape and topographical artist who worked within the English Romanticism tradition but in his choice of colours owed a debt to German Expressionism (A101 Rigby Graham In Print : 31 The Brewhouse Private Press). More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

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Details

  • Title The Casquets - The Most Dangerous Channel Islands : The Publisher's Copy With 2 Loose Coloured Proofs
  • Author Graham, Rigby
  • Illustrator Graham, Rigby
  • Edition Sole printing
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Publisher Brewhouse Press, Wymondham, UK
  • Date 1972
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 125980

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