Tarrant to Blandford. de GARDINER, RENA:

Blandford, Dorset Workshop Press, 1970 1st edition.. Large paperback. Size approx 13 x 10 inches. Illustrated paper covers with blue cloth covered spine. Staple bound. In very good condition. Cloth spine very slightly faded. Covers very bright and clean. An excellent clean tight copy. 45 pages with lovely colour drawings (and some text). Illustrated from Lithographic Aluminium Plates. “The illustrations in this book are from drawings made directly onto lithographic aluminium plates. They are therefore originals and not reproductions of drawings made on paper.”

Tarrant Monkton, Blandford Forum, Dorset: Rena Gardiner at the Workshop Press, 1970. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Softcover with blue cloth tape around spine (as issued). Condition: Very good with very light shelfwear to covers, which are bright and clean, as are the internal pages. Binding sound. Previous owners bookplate neatly fixed below index on reverse of front cover. 45pp. This book was designed, drawn, printed and published by Rena Gardiner at her Workshop Press in Tarrant Monkton. The caption on the rear cover reads thus: "The illustrations in this book are from drawing made directly onto lithographic aluminium plates. They are therefore originals and not reproductions of drawings made on paper." The Tarrant is one of the many streams of the Dorset chalklands. This book follows the course of the Tarrant down its valley, but diversions have been made to take in outlying villages. The last part continues along the river Stour back to Blandford..