Description:
About 30 text pages printed on cream Zerkall laid paper, and 134 engravings printed from the original blocks on Zerkall white smooth paper. With signed proof of the frontispiece in an envelope laid in. (Folio) quarter green morocco and pattered boards, morocco spine label lettered in gilt; silk and patterned paper slipcase. One of 55 Deluxe copies from a total edition of 175.Deluxe edition with frontispiece proof signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. A complete chronological listing of all Brett's engravings from 1961 to the time of publication. Simon Brett is acknowledged as one of the masters of wood engraving of the past half-century.
