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Risbury, Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1992. Written and with 9 copper engravings by Brian Hanscomb. One of 135 copies, this no. 22, signed by the artist. Handset in Caslon type and printed on F.J. Head handmade paper at Whittington Press. Folio, in a Japanese style stab sewn binding by The Fine Bindery with black ribbon over blue paper wrappers, printed title label to upper cover. An excellent copy housed in the original slightly spine faded and rubbed blue slipcase.||Hanscomb’s minutely observed copper engravings, accompanied by his poetic texts, beautifully capture the intimacy of the Cornish landscape.| One of 135 copies

1992. Lower Marston: The Whittington Press, 1992. Folio. Bound in a Japanese style in pale blue wrappers with black ribbon, printed title label on upper wrapper; 12 double leaves (french-fold); with 9 copper engravings by Brian Hanscomb, who also wrote the accompanying text; together with the additional suite of plates in matching blue folder; in the original cardboard slipcase; aside from one small bump to the edge of slipcase, a fine copy. First edition, limited to 135 numbered copies, printed on F.J. Head hand-made paper and signed by the artist. This one of just 35 with the extra suite of engravings, copy no. XXIX. Each of the additional copper engravings is marked A/P as usual. "Born in 1944 at Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, Brian followed the family tradition and was apprenticed at the age of 16 in the print industry, in his case, as a letter press engraver, later qualifying as a gravure industrial engraver. He left the print industry in 1979 to work full time as an artist engraver at… Read More