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International standard book number

0904845508

International standard book number

0904845516 (leather)

Shelfmark

Ls.4.38

Author

Title

The locks of the Oxford Canal : a journey from Oxford to Coventry / with fifty wood-engravings by John Craig.

Publication, distribution, etc.

Andoversford : printed & published by the Whittington Press, 1984.

Physical description

[10], x, [52] p., [1] folded leaf : ill., map ; 27 cm.

Note

"350 copies set in 12D Monotype Walbaum and printed at Whittington on Zerkall mould-made paper. 300 copies are bound in canvas cloth, and 43 in Nigerian goatskin (with proofs of twelve of the engravings) by Woolnoughs, & 7 copies are bound by John Craig with complete set of proofs. Printing completed August 1984".

Note

Folded leaf is printed in black and light brown ink on blue paper, tipped onto endpaper.

Note

Publisher's canvas cloth binding with circular wood-engraved medallion on upper cover and printed paper spine label; mauve endpapers with design printed in brown.

Provenance

Presented by Julia Rosenthal in 2013.

Provenance

Inscribed by John Craig on dedication leaf "and for Brian Farrelly ..." dated 1985.

Copy-specific note

ECL copy is numbered 212.

Copy-specific note

Loosely inserted advertisement for the Whittington Press printed on brown paper.

Copy-specific note

Loosely inserted joke menu on Basildon Bond notepaper using transfer letters.

Subject

Locks (Hydraulic engineering) England Pictorial works.

Subject

Oxford Canal (England) Description and travel.

Subject

England Midlands Canals Locks.

Subject

Oxfordshire Pictorial works.

Added entry--name

Whittington Press printer, publisher.

Added entry--place

England Andoversford.

Identifier

B47121
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