The Whittington Press: A Bibliography 1971-1981 Tapa dura -

Whittington Press, Andoversford, first edition, 1982. One of 200 copies (the ordinary issue) from a total limited edition of 320. Quarter buckram and Whittington marbled paper boards, quarto, 39 cm,. 83 pp, ills, plates, folded type-specimen. John Randle (in Butcher's second bibliography) comments: "The seeds of the idea of a short checklist of our books were first sown in about 1978, when David Butcher suggested he might compile such a list. But once sown, the plant grew rapidly: David's entries were far longer and more thorough than I had anticipated (like a terrier after a rabbit, he would allow no detail to pass unchecked). Then later, when I read Christopher Sandford's three- volume bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, I was attracted to the idea of writing a short piece about each book after the main bibliographical entry, as he had done, putting flesh on to the bare bones... I did not find it easy to write about the Press in an objective and impersonal way, having lived… Leer más

Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1982. Book. Very Good. Red Cloth. First Limited Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. 83 pages, frontispiece, nine wood and perspex engravings, five mounted half-tone illustrations, a large folded broadside and other illustrations. Uncirculated e-x-library copy without any markings to the binding..