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Whittington Press, Risbury, first edition, 1999. Limited edition of 415 copies, this being one of 375 of the ordinary edition. Quarter-buckram and decorated paper boards, 22 cm,. 84 pp, 36 wood-engravings by John O'Connor. From the publisher's description: "Since 1992, John O'Connor has contributed a monthly wood-engraving to Richard Ingrams' Oldie magazine, illustrating essays on English life and the countryside by Germaine Greer and Candida Lycett Green. This selection of thirty-six of the engravings forms a portrait of English landscape, buildings and people that is engagingly observed and recorded by John O'Connor. His sympathy with the English countryside and his knowledge of its architecture are evocatively demonstrated in these engravings. John O'Connor learned to engrave under Eric Ravilious and John Nash at the Royal College of Art in 1933, and his images of the English landscape and people have appeared almost without interruption since then. The Press…
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- Title People & Places
- Author O'Connor, J. ; Whittington Press
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Limited edition
- Pages 84 pp, 36 wood-engravings by Joh
- Publisher Whittington Press, Risbury, first edition, 1999
- Date 1999
- ISBN 9781854280565
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People & Places
by O'Connor, J. ; Whittington Press
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- Limited edition of 415 copies, this being one of 375 of the ordi
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- 9781854280565 / 1854280562
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