THE REMINISCENCES OF EDMUND EVANS.
Edited and introduced by Ruari McLean. Pp. xx+92, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (several full and one double page), selective list of books containing colour printing by Edmund Evans, indices; f'cap. 4to; pictorial green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt; dust wrapper; free endpapers slightly tape marked; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1967. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by Ruari McLean on the upper free endpaper, with a TLs. from him (letterhead, dated 29 March 1979) and a typed list of his publications (folded and slightly soiled) loosely inserted. A few minor annotations through the book are possibly also in his hand. 'Ruari McLean discovered this pleasant short autobiography of the engraver and printer in the possession of a descendant and has provided it with an Introduction and a check-list of the books for which Evans printed coloured illustrations... Some of the illustrations, including the photographs of Edmund Evans and of his family, have never before been published' [wrapper blurb]. Item #142929
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