WALLPAPERS BY EDWARD BAWDEN PRINTED AT THE CURWEN PRESS.
Andoversford: The Whittington Press, 1989. Signed, limited edition, no.37 of only 40 copies of the deluxe Special Edition (the most deluxe and only signed format in the total edition of 120 copies),large folio, quarter bound in Nigerian goatskin, with Bird’s Nest wallpaper design to boards, and containing sheets or parts of sheets of 7 original Bawden wallpapers, accompanied by whole sheets of the Riviera and Facade papers in a separate portfolio, and signed by author and artist, also containing full-colour reproductions of 8 papers for which actual samples are not available, as well as reproductions of two unpublished designs for wallpapers by Bawden which were never taken up by the Curwen Press, and a series of monochrome photographs, pp.32 text; crease to fore-edge of Plate 1 (Tree and Cow), plates 2 and 6 also have slight creasing to fore-edge/corners, an otherwise fine copy, housed in very good cloth- and paper-covered slipcase. The portfolio also containing the publisher's prospectus, a typed letter from Rosalind Randle to the original subscriber, an autograph letter to him from David McKitterick, and the original invoice,