Title: A Conservatory for My Prospectuses and Specimen Leaves Author: Morris, Henry Place: Newtown, PA Publisher: Bird & Bull Press Date: 2008 Description: With prospectuses, specimen leaves, facsimiles, etc. tipped in. (4to) green cloth with gilt cover design, black spine label with gilt lettering, housed in black cloth clamshell box. No. 2 of 100 copies hand numbered and initialed by Henry Morris. 2 copies of prospectus laid in. From the foreword by Henry Morris: "I like the idea of having these artifacts [prospectuses and specimen leaves] of Bird & Bull all in one place and bound into a book. And I like the idea of being able to look through such a book getting a sense of the progression and variety of works produced over a period of fifty years." Herewith - a glimpse of 50 years of the Bird & Bull Press. The contents of each of the 100 copies produced will vary as quantities of any single item were limited. The book includes thirty-six pages of brief running commentaries on the books, as are facsimiles of relevant letters. Scarce. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine. Item number: 273039
Title: A Conservatory for My Prospectuses and Specimen Leaves Author: Morris, Henry Place: Newtown, PA Publisher: Bird & Bull Press Date: 2008 Description: With prospectuses, specimen leaves, facsimiles, etc. tipped in. (4to) green cloth with gilt cover design, black spine label with gilt lettering, housed in black cloth clamshell box. No. 2 of 100 copies hand numbered and initialed by Henry Morris. 2 copies of prospectus laid in. From the foreword by Henry Morris: "I like the idea of having these artifacts [prospectuses and specimen leaves] of Bird & Bull all in one place and bound into a book. And I like the idea of being able to look through such a book getting a sense of the progression and variety of works produced over a period of fifty years." Herewith - a glimpse of 50 years of the Bird & Bull Press. The contents of each of the 100 copies produced will vary as quantities of any single item were limited. The book includes thirty-six pages of brief running commentaries on the books, as are facsimiles of relevant letters. Scarce. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine. Item number: 273039
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