[9] leaves, [1], 20 leaves of plates : chiefly illustrations ; 36 cm.
General Note
This is one of fifty copies on Japan Vellum & contains a unique woodcut now destroyed.
Initial devices and vignette by Wadsworth and 20 black and white plates.
A series of lithographic reproductions of drawings made in and around Staffordshire. Cf. Ransom.
"Press notices": leaves [6]-[8].
Introductory Note by Arnold Bennett `Reprinted by kind permission of the author from the catalogue of an exhibition held at The Leicester Gallery London January 1920.’ (page [8]).
Contents
Drawings. I. Sir Alfred Hickman Ltd. -- II. Ladle Slag I -- III. Blast furnices -- IV. Granite quarries, Oldbury -- V. Windmill End -- VI. Slag Heap, Netherton -- VII. Mineral lines -- VIII. View near Bilston -- IX. Ladle Slag Old Hill -- X. Hingley's Furnaces -- XI. Ladle Slag II -- XII.Tarmac -- XIII. Bilston Slag -- XIV. Darby Hill -- XV. Ladle Slag Round Oak II -- XVI. Tarmac II -- XVII. Tarmac III -- XVIII. Ladle Slag Springvale Furnaces -- XIX. Ladle Slag Round Oak II -- XX. Gospel Oak Furnace -- + Black Country Village. Frontispiece special to this editon. Block destroyed.
References
Tomkinson, G.S. A select bibliography of the principal modern presses, public and private, in Great Britain and Ireland. London: First Edition Club, 1928.
Ransom, W. Private Presses and their books. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1929., p. 108 & 374.
Provenance
With a printed label pasted upside down on the back pastedown: `Wiston Old Rectory'
Copy Note
Copy 18 of 50. Numbered and signed by the artist on the colophon.
Binding Note
Original black cloth with gilt lettering pane on upper cover.