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Vance Gerry & the Weather Bird Press / with contributions by Vance Gerry, Simon Lawrence, David Butcher, Patrick Reagh, James Lorson and John Randle & with a checklist of publications compiled by David Butcher.

Accession number
PML 198265
Published
Risbury, Herefordshire : Whittington Press, [2018]
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2019.
Notes
"This edition of 235 copies is set in 13-point Poliphilus ... 40 'A' copies are bound by the Fine Book Bindery in full Oasis and are accompanied by 22 items of Weather Bird ephemera found in Vance's workshop after his death ... also by a facsimile of Jazz instruments, & a portfolio of 13 facsimiles of Vance's letters; all contained in a leather-backed solander box. 40 'B' copies are bound in half-leather and one of Vance's pattern papers ... all in a slipcase. 155 'C' copies are half-bound in cloth and one of Vance's pattern papers, in a slipcase. The letter in the back board from Vance to John and Jeannie O'Connor is dated 11 January 1992" --colophon.
Fair Wind (4 pages, no date) is a tipped-in reproduction containing an excerpt from Two years before the mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Two leaves of facsimiles in pocket inside back board.
This copy is no. 23 of the 40 'A' copies.
Description
10 unnumbered pages, 86 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates, XII pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 34 cm
Binding
Salmon Oasis morocco, spine gilt, with three portfolios in an orange cloth salmon morocco backed drop-down box.
Classification
Department