The author is an artist, musician and poet. The fables are all his own, improbable and playful – a pair of cross-dressing vultures, a timorous elk, a parliament of quails, an irritable camel that quite literally walks off the page… The book has also been designed by him as well, using Bewick’s woodcuts and Bodoni’s dingbats; the typesetting is exquisite and small liberties have been taken with some of the woodcuts. The more you look at the book, the more you find. Privately published in a signed, limited edition of 250.
Twenty-Five Fables
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£45.00
978191621620402/09/2021
Categories: 05. Books for Christmas 2021: Fiction, Books for Christmas 2021, Fiction, Orchids, Remarkables, Small & Private Press
Tags: Illustrious Illustrators, Plain Glorious
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