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51. A Rook Book
by Richard Jefferies


Size: 6 x 9 ins.
Date: March 1988
Description: 106pp. Set in 16pt Poliphilus type. Printed on Hardy Ends paper. Bound by Mary Parry in green cloth over boards, issued with a printed pictorial dust jacket in red and black. Preliminary pages and first page of text printed in red and black and red and brown. Speckled vream end-papers.
Illustrations: 16 etchings printed in relief by Nicholas Parry
No. of Copies: 125 numbered copies.
Comments: Including 15 special copies. Signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry
Price: £60
51a. A Rook Book
by Richard Jefferies


Size: 6 x 9 ins.
Date: March 1988
Description: 106pp. Set in 16pt Poliphilus type. Printed on Hardy Ends paper. Bound by Mary Parry in full pigskin, stamped in brown and gilt on the spine. Preliminary pages and first page of text printed in red and black and red and brown. Some copies housed in a cloth covered drop-back box.
Illustrations: 16 original drawings by Nicholas Parry
No. of Copies: 15 copies.
Comments: Numbered 1 to 15. Signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry.
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Saint Matheu
52. Saint Matheu
by John Wycliffe


Size: 11.5 x 8.25 ins.
Date: December 1988
Description: 121pp. Set in 14pt Baskerville type. Printed on T. H. Saunders hand-made paper. Bound by Mary Parry in white woven linen with a paper title label in green on the spine and an illustrated paper label in green on the front cover. Title-page decoration in blue, title in shades of blue and green. With handcut capitals for chapter headings in different colours.
Illustrations: 24 etched lino and mixed media prints in different colours by Nicholas Parry
No. of Copies: 140 copies.
Comments: Including 15 special copies. Signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry
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Saint Matheu
52a. Saint Matheu
by John Wycliffe


Size: 11.5 x 8.25 ins.
Date: December 1988
Description: 121pp. Set in 14pt Baskerville type. Printed on T. H. Saunders hand-made paper. Bound by Mary Parry in coloured decorative cloth. Title-page decoration in blue, title in shades of blue and green. With handcut capitals for chapter headings in different colours. Housed in a clamshell box.
Illustrations: 24 original watercolours by Nicholas Parry.
No. of Copies: 15 copies.
Comments: Numbered 1 to 15. Signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry.
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53. Cropper
by Bernard Tomlinson


Size: 3 x 4 ins.
Date: 1989
Description: [35pp.] Set in 10pt Bembo by Bill Hughes. Printed on T. H. Saunders paper. Bound in grey cloth covered boards with grey end papers and a printed label to the front cover.
Illustrations: 6 lino-cuts by Nicholas Parry
No. of Copies: 100 numbered copies
Comments: Signed by Nicholas Parry
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54 Sea, Sky and Down
by Richard Jefferies


Size: 6.5 x 3.75 ins
Date: 1989
Description: [60pp.] Set in 12pt Caslon Italic. Printed on T. H. Saunders paper. Bound in green wove cloth with matching end papers and a cut out showing a pictorial title label printed in red centered on the upper board.
Illustrations: 16 illustrations by Nicholas Parry
No. of Copies: 125 copies.
Comments: Signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry. Some copies have a paper spine label.
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Mary Webb   Chinese Lion 55. The Chinese Lion
by Mary Webb


Size: 5.25 x 7.6 ins.
Date: August 1989
Description:[29pp.] Set in Caslon type. Printed on Zerkall paper. Quarter bound in fawn paper with a printed paper label with decorated cream paper over boards with a printed paper label to the front cover. Dark grey end-papers.
Illustrations: 6 wood engravings by Nicholas Parry
No. of Copies: 100 numbered copies.
Comments: Signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry
Price: £30
56. The Summons
by John Clare


Size: 5.25 x 7.25 ins.
Date: 1989
Description:[20pp.] Bound in pale green cloth covered boards with dark green end-papers. Issued in a printed pale orange dust jacket with titles in red and an illustration printed in black.
Illustrations:5 engravings by Nicholas Parry.
No. of Copies: 70 copies.
Comments: Signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry.
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57. The Poems of Taliesin
translated by Meirion Pennar.


Size: 12.5 x 14.75 ins.
Date: December 1989
Description: [53pp.] Set in 16pt Poliphilus & Blado type. Printed on Antik mould made paper. Bound decorated grey paper over boards with a speckled rough linen spine, with a printed paper label to the spine. Pale grey end-papers.
Illustrations: 12 full page lino prints by Nicholas Parry
No. of Copies: 90 numbered copies.
Comments: Signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry
Price: £150
   
58. The Rune Poem
by Bill Griffiths


Size: 6.75 x 5 ins.
Date: June 1989
Description: [61pp.] Set in 14pt Jenson type. Printed on Roma Sel Sarto paper. Bound in cork covered boards with a grey cloth spine, with a printed spine label. Russet-brown end-papers.
Illustrations: 29 etched lino prints by Nicholas Parry
No. of Copies: 125 numbered copies.
Comments: Text printed in red and black. Signed by Nicholas Parry. Bound by Mary Parry and Ludwig Mohr. One copy bound in full dark red morrocco with inlays of orange, brown morrocco and blind embossing in the form of runes was commissioned by the publishers.
Price: £45
59. Trees: 'the Spirits of the Woods'
by John Clare


Size: 9 x 13.25 ins.
Date: May 1989
Description: 113pp. Set in Baskerville type. Printed on T. H. Saunders paper. Bound in Morris design cloth over boards. Dark blue end-papers.
Illustrations: 21 coloured lino prints by Nicholas Parry
No. of Copies: 100 numbered copies.
Comments: Including 15 specials. Edited by Eric Robinson. Signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry.
Price: £200
   
59a. Trees: 'the Spirits of the Woods'
by John Clare


Size: 9 x 13.25 ins
Date: May 1989
Description: 113pp. Set in Baskerville. Quarter bound in morocco with Morris design cloth covered boards.
Illustrations: Original watercolours by Nicholas Parry
No. of Copies: 15 copies.
Comments: Numbered 1-15. Signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry
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