Aiden mackey (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Quarter black buckram, red, black, and cream patterned paper to boards and to all sides of matching slipcase. Gilt lettering to spine, printed paper label to front board and label to upper side of slipcase. Oblong 4to (19.5 x 27cm). Top edges pink, other edges deckled. Frontis. Title page printed in red and black. Limited edition: one of 370 copies printed at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, on Zerkall mould-made paper, this copy unnumbered. Signed by Adian Mackey and Richard Ingrams. The patterned paper, although using red rather than yellow, matches that used on the boards of the first edition of Chesterton's 1938 'The Coloured Lands'. A collection of 16 previously unpublished Chesterton illustrations, drawn to entertain the children of a friend, with a story written to accompany them by Chesterton scholar Aiden Mackey. A beautifully designed book in original fine slipcase. ~Robust packaging. Signed by Author. Hardback. Size: 56pp. No dustwrapper, as issued. Signed by Author.…

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. A superb signed limited edition copy of this novel by Aidan Mackey, written to celebrate the drawings of G. K. Chesterton. The first edition of this limited edition work, number 218 of 370 copies produced. Signed by the author Aiden Mackey, and the author of the introduction, Richard Ingrams. In the publisher's original slip case. Illustrated with a tipped in frontispiece, and with sixteen vignette and full page pencil illustrations from G. K. Chesterton. A charming fictional novel written by Aidan Mackey to celebrate G. K. Chesterton's art, which the author considered to be undervalued by the public, as Chesterton was mainly famous for his writings. With an introductory essay on Chesterton as an artist by Richard Ingrams. In the publisher's original cloth backed, paper covered boards, with slip case. Externally, fine. Slip case in fine condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine. G. K. Chesterton (illustrator). signed by author. book.…