The Cuckoo Clock. LIMIITED TO 50 COPIES.

LESLIE, Shane

Verlag: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1987

Beschreibung

~De luxe limited edition. One of 50 hand-coloured copies from an edition of 200. De luxe edition bound in quarter blue morocco, blue Chinese silk to boards. Gilt lettering to spine, gilt cuckoo clock and author's signature to front board. With glassene dustwrapper. With original slipcase in Fine condition, covered in Japanese wood veneer by George Percival, Market Hanborough. Minor band of sunning to top rear slipcase. Produced under the supervision of the Stanbrook Abbey Printer. Illustrations hand-tinted by the artist and three assistants. Illustrations by Iris Leslie, Shane Leslie's second wife, who produced this illustrated collection of her late husband's poems for their great-grandchildren, who would never have met their great-grandfather. Sir Shane Leslie (1885-1971), Irish writer and diplomat. A first cousin of Winston Churchill from a grand Anglo-Irish family, Leslie converted to Catholicism at Cambridge and became a strong supporter of Irish Home Rule. He wrote and published extensively throughout his life. A very attractive and charmingly personal volume. (The yellowing to the paper in the pictures is not present in the book). ~Robust packaging. All UK orders trackable, others on request. Size: (vi), 40pp. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers GG3537

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Cuckoo Clock. LIMIITED TO 50 COPIES.

Verlag: Stanbrook Abbey Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1987

Einband: Hardback

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st edn.

Art des Buches: Binding sound, text unmarked