Simon Lawrence; Malcolm Yorke; Ian Rogerson
Three Prospectuses from the Fleece Press: More Fleece Press Books for 2005; an Important New Book from Fleece Press; the Inward Laugh
Upper Denby, Huddersfield, The Fleece Press, 2004-2006 . First edition. Paperback. Three charming and very scarce prospectuses for works published by The Fleece Press, a private press dedicated to producing finely crafted, limited-edition books about wood engravers. Three very scarce advertising prospectuses, alongside a typed letter advertising another work from the press.Simon Lawrence founded the Fleece Press in 1980, with the intention of using it to celebrate British art, particularly focusing on wood engraving and the works of interwar and wartime artists.The first work is the scarce advertising prospectus 'More Fleece Press Books for 2005', one of 1,200 copies of this work produced, detailing the 2005 publication of 'Two Superiors. T.E.Lawrence and George Brough', 'The Bookplates of Richard Shirley Smith' and 'Endeavours and Experiments. John Buckland Wright's essays in woodcut and colour engraving.'The second work is a very scarce 2005 advertising prospectus for the publication of 'The Inward Laugh, Edward Bawden and his Circle' by Dr Malcolm Yorke. Complete with a loosely inserted errata slip, and illustrated with two tipped in colour plates. Collated, complete.The final volume is a very scarce 2006 prospectus - titled 'An Important New Book From Fleece Press' - for 'The Graphic Work of Barnett Freedman' by Ian Rogerson. This prospectus is one of 1,450 produced.Illustrated with two tipped in colour plates. Collated, complete.Also present is a typed letter from Lawrence, advertising the 2006 publication of 'Bookplates by Richard Shirley Smith', another publication from the press. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, fine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: Barnett Freedman; Edward Bawden. Fine .

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