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Ebble Valley / Howard Phipps, with wood-engravings and coloured linocuts by the author.

LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Whittington 5
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Phipps, Howard, author.
Contributor:
Wieck, Roger S., associated name, former owner.
Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- associated name, former owner.
Whittington Press, printer, publisher.
Gloucester Typesetting, type designer.
Papierfabrik Zerkall Renker & Söhne, papermaker.
Velké Losiny Mill (Firm), papermaker.
Fine Book Bindery (Firm), binder.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ebble, River (England)--Description and travel.
Ebble, River (England).
Wiltshire (England)--Description and travel.
Wiltshire (England).
Travel.
England--River Ebble.
England--Wiltshire.
Genre:
wood engravings.
linocuts.
letterpress printing.
fine press books.
Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Poliphilus.
Physical Description:
[33] pages, 31 unnumbered pages of plates (some folded, some tipped in) : illustrations (some color), map ; 32 cm
Place of Publication:
Lower Marston Farm, Risbury, Herefordshire : Whittington Press, 2007.
Notes:
"300 copies set in 13-point Poliphilus by Gloucester Typesetting and printed at Whittington on Zerkall mould-made & Losin hand-made papers. 25 copies are bound in full Oasis leather with a separate portfolio of proofs of most of the engravings, and a facsimile of one of the artist's pencil sketches; 45 copies are bound in half-leather with a portfolio of a selection of the engravings; and 230 copies are bound in half cloth, by The Fine Bookbindery."--Colophon.
In case, as issued.
Local Notes:
Whittington 5: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck in 2019. Edition number 146 of 300. In slipcase.
ISBN:
1854280848
9781854280848
OCLC:
190566221

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