Comfort me with apples, and other poems: PB 113-2003

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Titles

Comfort me with apples, and other poems

Maker(s)

Author: Bewick, Elizabeth
Contributor: Crossley-Holland, Kevin
Illustrator: Williams, Graham
Printer: Williams, Graham
Publisher: Florin Press
Binder (person): Simaleavich, David

Description

By Elizabeth Bewick ; introduced by Kevin Crossley-Holland ; wood engravings by Graham Williams.

37, [2] p. : ill. ; 31 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1987

Note

"135 copies have been printed by hand, on an Albion Press, by Graham Williams. The engravings, including the Press device, are printed from the wood. The setting is in Joanna with Rockwell Light for display. The paper is a somewhat wayward English mouldmade, unnamed and probably made in the 1960s. The binding cloth is cotton from Laura Ashley. Bound by David Simaleavich in his Phoenix Bindery, Amsterdam."--Colophon Museum has copy n. 105, signed by Elizabeth Bewick and Graham Williams. Title-half page with inscription to John Dreyfus: "For John with love Graham". Bound in green floral designed cloth; leather spine label with gilt lettering. Issued in green card slipcase.