Some Observations on Jabberwocky; | With a Wood Engraving by George A. Walker | And a Tribute to Joe Brabant by Andy Malcolm.
Toronto: The Cheshire Cat Press [typeset and printed at the Poole Hall Press, Grimsby], 1997. Octavo, 24.5 x 15.2 cm. Cased in quarter light brown buckram, with speckled cream paper covered boards, title printed to the upper cover, and light tan endpapers. pp. [5], 2-16, [4]. A fine copy. The text was set in Goudy Medieval roman and Arrighi italic; Century Schoolbook roman and italic were used for quotations from Alice’s Adventures and Through the Looking-Glass; printed on Noranda Forest Recycled Antique paper. Illustrated with a wood engraved frontispiece by George Walker, printed in green from the block; the engraving, which depicts only half of the Jabberwock, may be complemented, to form the full image, by the wood engraving appearing on p. 10 of Walker and Poole’s production of Through the Looking-Glass. One of 177 unnumbered copies. Item #175
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