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[005282] Butcher, David (Commentary). Pages from Presses – Kelmscott, Ashendene, Doves, Vale, Eragny & Essex House. Risbury, Herefordshire: The Whittington Press, 2006. First Edition. Folio. Hardback. Very Good / No Jacket (as Issued). [11], xii-xiii, [8], 6-102pp, [2]. Original half goat and marbled paper over boards in the modern style, title in gilt to spine, in the original slipcase

Spine very slightly faded, slipcase rubbed, but internally bright and clean

Title in red and black, signed by David Butcher to limitation leaf, being copy xxii of forty copies thus, from a total edition of one hundred and eighty-five

With a folding frontispiece and eleven original paper leaves, including one from each of the presses in the title

The book “concentrates on what has been called the golden age of the English private press. Each specimen is presented with a lucid and well-reading account of the press concerned …This beautiful and useful volume – the two words go naturally together here, as so often with Whittington books – will repay study both for its text and for its inserts. In gathering so much together it is far more than an ordinary leaf book” (David McKitterick in Parenthesis 14, pages 54-55). Described as “one of the handsomest, and now the rarest, books to come from the Press” (Matrix 36, lower cover)