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