Description
Item Description:"Bookplates by Richard Shirley Smith was begun in 2005 but completed during 2006"--Label mounted inside front cover.
"There are 275 copies of this book, and it has been a pleasure to print some of the very best bookplates ever made. Of these, forty copies (thirty-two for sale) contain a chemise holding four proofs of drawn bookplates, signed by the artist. The paper is T.H. Saunders HP, the type Van Dijck set at Whittington by Peter Pugwash Sanderson, and the reproductions of the bookplates were printed by Smith Settle, who also bound the book."--Colophon.
"This lavish catalogue of Shirley Smith's bookplates produced through 2003 was one of North Lee's last publications."--Moss.
Purchased for the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive by The Cushing Library.
Physical Description:101 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN:0948375795
9780948375798
Related Items:The Cushing Library/Lowman/Book Design copy forms part of the Book Design Section of the Al Lowman Printing Arts Collection and Research Archive.