Title: A Folding Screen: Selected Chinese Lyrics ...
Publisher: Whittington Press
Publication Date: 1974
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Authors
Edition: 1st Edition
1st edition. vii, 94 plus colophon. Number 191 of a limited edition of 200 copies handset in Caslon printed on Wookey Hole hand-made paper and signed by Alan Ayling and Duncan Mackintosh on the colophon. Top edges gilt, others uncut. 20 x 29.5 cm. Original full Chinese patterned cloth, preserved in original blue board slip case (with a few slight scuff marks). The Whittington Press has, since 1971, been printing books by letterpress, & have been printing books of exquisite quality and casting its own type as one of only a handful of Monotype shops still working, with one of the largest collections of matrices (and that is what makes it unique). WorldCat locates 73 copies in institutional libraries out of a total of 200 copies produced, leaving fewer than 120 odd copies in private hands. Seller Inventory # 5163