Dear Alec - : a tribute for his eightieth birthday / from friends known and unknown.
Contributor:
Britten, Benjamin
Contributor:
Bliss, Arthur
Printer:
Stanbrook Abbey
Contributors include John, Cardinal Heenan and music by Benjamin Britten and Arthur Bliss.
Method of acquisition: Given (1989) by Hall, David J.
1972 CE - 172 CE
"Set at the keyboard in Monotype 'Spectrum' re-justified by hand & printed at the Stanbrook Abbey Press, Worcester on Hodgkinson's cream-laid handmade paper, the photographs reproduced by the Cotswold Collotype Co. Ltd. Line-blocks by the Sun Engraving Co. Ltd, Manchester. Monogram by Margaret Adams. This edition comprises 60 special numbered copies bound in full leather with slip case by George Percival, Leicester. 135 copies in various papers & bindings for private circulation among contributors & friends."--Colophon Museum has one of the 135 copies. Binding: White paper over card which is mainly covered by strip of handmade paper decorated with dried grass.
Support composed of paper
Accession number: PB 42-1989
Primary reference Number: 99082
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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