McLean, Ruari

VICTORIAN BOOK DESIGN AND COLOUR PRINTING.

Pp. xvi+182, 72 plates (8 coloured), black & white half-title, title, and text illustrations, index; demy 8vo; pink cloth, spine blocked in purple and lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, slightly foxed, edges a trifle rubbed, the backstrip browned; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves lightly foxed; Faber & Faber, London, 1963. First edition. *Loosely inserted is a short autograph letter from McLean, on his letterhead, dated 7 XI 90, to 'John' [English bookseller John Saumarez Smith], mainly referring to the artist Ronald Searle. (McLean had a 'largish collection' of books by Searle). Item #164112

Price: $350.00