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An acrobatic alphabet : wood engravings

Title
An acrobatic alphabet : wood engravings / by Barbara Crow.
Author
Crow, Barbara.
Publication
Andoversford, Gloucestershire : The Whittington Press, 1986.

Details

Description
[58] p. : chiefly ill.; 20 cm.
Subject
  • Crow, Barbara
  • Alphabet
  • Acrobats in art
Genre/Form
Alphabet books – Great Britain – 20th century.
Note
  • Printed on double leaves; illustrated letter and related word on opposite pages.
  • Binding, publisher's, by Smith Settle, of illustrated stiff paper, yarn-stitched. Issued in slipcase.
Call Number
*KP (Whittington) 87-81
ISBN
0904845702
OCLC
  • 17677200
  • NYPG87-B51832
Author
Crow, Barbara.
Title
An acrobatic alphabet : wood engravings / by Barbara Crow.
Imprint
Andoversford, Gloucestershire : The Whittington Press, 1986.
Local Note
335 copies printed in terra cotta (letterpress) and black (wood engravings). No. 102 of 300 uncolored copies.
Accompanied by 3 broadsides of the wood engravings, two (57 x 37 cm.) with title and statement of responsibility as above and statement "250 copies printed on Spalding & Hodge paper for the Whittington summer show, 6.ix.86"; one (54 x 39 cm.) with no letterpress except statement "50 copies printed at Whittington on Hoshi paper." One Spalding & Hodge copy is hand-colored, one of "about 6" such copies; cf. accompanying ms. note from the publisher.
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Research Call Number
*KP (Whittington) 87-81 Broadsides in *KVB++ 1986 87-82.
*KVB++ 1986 87-82 Book in *KP (Whittington) 87-81.
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