Item #107288 Shades: An Essay on English Portrait Silhouettes. David Piper.

Shades: An Essay on English Portrait Silhouettes.

1970. New York: Chilmark Press, 1970.

4to, 64pp. Illustrated with black & white silhouettes throughout. Original black quarter cloth with pictorial boards. Gilt title to spine. In the original glassine dust-wrapper. Prospectus loosely inserted.

§ The fourth of the Clover Hill Editions of the Chilmark Press, limited to 500 copies, of which this is number 258. Designed by Sebastian Carter, and printed by him and Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge on St. Paul's Cray rag paper. An amazingly inexpensive example of excellent printing by the Carters, published at $20. Item #107288

Price: $50.00

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