Memoirs of a Cotswold Village
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1982. First, Limited Edition. Royal 8vo, 10 x 6 1/2 inches (255 x 165 mm); 59 pp. 10 lithographic reproductions of halftone photographs, tipped in. Machine-set in 12 point Monotype Caslon and printed on Abbey Mill Glastonbury Ivory Antique laid paper. Quarter bound by Smith Settle & Co. in brown cloth with Laura Ashley 'Wild Strawberry' patterned paper-cover boards; cream spine label, top edge stained brown. Endpapers printed with a line-block reproduction of a drawing of "a bird's eye view of Whittington about 1910' by Miriam Macgregor.
Copy 171 of 350 copies, signed by the author.
[Butcher 62].
The text consists of Frank Berry's recollections of the village in the decade from Christmas 1908 to the Armistice in November 1918, illustrated with contemporary photographs.
Condition: Fine.
Item number: 2384
ISBN: 0904845451
Price: $110.00
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