£555
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
A Journey from Oxford to Coventry. With Fifty Wood-Engravings by John Craig. Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1984. Number XI of 43 copies specially bound, signed by the artist and including a suite of proof engravings, 4to, original Nigerian goatskin with inlaid roundel to front board, wood-engraved vignettes throughout the text, folding plate printed on blue paper, with 12 wood-engraved proofs on Japanese paper, each signed and dated by the artist in pencil and annotated ‘AP’ (artist's proof) in pencil at foot, loose as issued in brown cloth portfolio, the book and portfolio housed together in original brown cloth slipcase with printed paper onlays to sides. Binding slightly rubbed and with a few small flecks
The Locks of the Oxford Canal was printed in a total edition of 350 copies (300 bound in cloth, 43 in Nigerian goatskin with proof engravings, as here, and seven copies bound by the artist with a complete set of proofs).