Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. The Special Centenary Limited Edition published by The Folio Society in London. 2008. The Book is in Fine, seemingly unread, condition. Strictly limited to 1,000 numbered copies, this is number 151, The book is handbound in white quarter vellum, blocked on the spine in 22-carat gold, with vellum tips and paper sides blocked in three shades of metallic foil. Each copy contains a limitation spread with a tipped-in etching, hand-printed under the artist's supervision and signed by him with the limitation number. Beautiful New illustrations have been created by Charles van Sandwyk, and the book now contains 16 colour plates, all tipped in by hand, with gold edges and exquisite gold borders. Forty new pen-and-ink drawings have been added, including chapter heads and tails, as well as many hand-drawn captions. The newly designed endpapers showing an architectural plan of Toad Hall have been printed by letterpress. The calligraphy has been printed letterpress by the Logan Press. Gilded top edge, 280 pages. Book size: 13" x 9¾". Presented in the fine publisher's original cloth-bound solander box with gilt lettered title label. 'The drawings were made especially for it, and have never been printed anywhere else'. A wonderful production celebrating the 100th anniversary of the the title's first publication
Folio Society:The Wind in the Willows, Ill Charles Sandwyk Signed Ltd Edt No.151
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Folio SocietyDate Published:
2008
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