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Title

Christmas poems / by George Mackay Brown ; with wood engravings by John Lawrence.

Author

Brown, George Mackay

Publication

Oxford : Perpetua Press, 1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lawrence, John, 1933-
• Ridler, Vivian
• Perpetua Press. prt

Description

19, [4] p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Subject

Christmas poetry

Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bembo.

Note

• "One hundred copies of this book, handset in Bembo type, have been printed on Zerkall-Butten paper by Vivian Ridler at the Perpetua Press, Oxford, and signed by the author, illustrator and printer"--Colophon. There is also a "general edition of 750 copies ... reproduced in a smaller format ... from the original edition"; cf. t.p. verso.

Binding (note)

• Publisher's quarter black cloth and red paper boards; light gray label on front cover.

Local note

• NYPL copy is no. 100; signed by Brown, Lawrence and Ridler.
• Accompanied by prospectus ([1] leaf).

Contents

Dance of the months -- The child in the snow -- House of winter -- A winter king -- Midnight words -- Carol: kings and shepherds -- Christmas poem.

Call Number

*KP (Perpetua) 08-381

ISBN

• 0950848816 (lim. ed.)
• 9780950848815 (lim. ed.)

LCCN

85219718

OCLC

11732046

Author

Brown, George Mackay.

Title

Christmas poems / by George Mackay Brown ; with wood engravings by John Lawrence.

Imprint

Oxford : Perpetua Press, 1984.

Local Note

NYPL copy is no. 100; signed by Brown, Lawrence and Ridler.

Binding

Publisher's quarter black cloth and red paper boards; light gray label on front cover.

Local Note

Accompanied by prospectus ([1] leaf).

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Added Author

Lawrence, John, 1933- Illustrator

Ridler, Vivian. Printer

Perpetua Press. Printer

Research Call Number

*KP (Perpetua) 08-381