The engagement / [by] Bryan Guinness ; illustrated by Olwyn Bowey

Bryan Guinness 2nd Baron Moyne

RA Collection: Book

Record number

14/5177

Author

Edition

1st edition.

Imprint

Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, [1969]

Physical Description

9 unnumbered pages, 89 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

General Note

“Designed by Will Carter and printed at The Stellar Press, Welham Green, Hatfield, Hertfordshire. 1,000 copies of which 350 have been signed by the author.” [colophon]. This copy is signed by the author on the colophon.

“Acknowledgements are due to the Editors of the Dublin Magazine who published a dramatic version of the Prologue in the Spring of 1968.” (page [8]).
No publication date present. Date of publication from the British Library catalogue. Other library catalogues give the date as 1968 or 1970.
Includes three full page illustrations and a tailpiece by Olwyn Bowey RA.

Binding Note

Publisher's brown cloth quarter-binding with patterned paper boards; with original glassine wrapper.(1st copy also includes a wrap round title slip in printed card). Lettered in gilt on spine: `The Engagement. Bryan Guinness'

Subject

Illustrated books
20th-century fiction

Contributors

Olwyn Bowey RA, illustrator, dedicatee
Will Carter, book designer
Rampant Lions Press (Cambridge), publisher
Stellar Press, printer