Flowers and faces / by H.E. Bates ; engravings by John Nash

H.E. Bates

RA Collection: Book

Record number

15/4410

Author

Imprint

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1935

Physical Description

52, [1] pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

General Note

`This book of Flowers and Faces has been printed in Golden Cockerel type by Christopher Sandford, Francis J. Newbery, Owen Rutter and Joan Grant at the Golden Cockerel Press, and completed on the first day of June, 1935. Compositors: A. H. Gibbs and E.J. Ward. Pressman: H. Barker. The edition is limited to 325 copies, of which numbers 1-6 are printed on vellum and 7-325 on Batchelor Hand-made Paper. Number 201-325 are not for sale.’
The back pastedown carries the blue printed label of `Geoffrey Tyndale’s Bookshop, 22 Milsom Street, Bath.'

Copy Note

No. 119 of an edition of 325. Signed by the author in the colophon.

Binding Note

Quarter-bound in green leather with marbled boards. Titled in gilt on spine.

Subject

Illustrated books
Flowers
Wood-engravings

Contributors

John Nash RA, illustrator, wood-engraver
Christopher Sandford, printer
The Golden Cockerel Press, publisher