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The Fleece Press, Upper Denby, first edition, 2016. Limited edition of 185 copies bound in threee different designs. Patterned gilt-speckled boards, paper cover-label, small oblong 8vo,. [9] pp, tipped-in ills (some colour). From the text: "Lucy Carrington Wertheim (1883-1971) and her husband Paul, a Manchester cotton merchant, owned a seaside house, Little Belan, at Lancing, West Sussex which they used during the summer with their three children. Lucy Wertheim later opened a London gallery in Burlington Gardens which ran from 1930-39, and another in Manchester during 1932-33. By 1924 she already had a strong interest in British painting, and on holiday had made occasional visits to Eric Gill's workshop in Ditchling, before he moved to Capel-y-ffin. Several letters, mainly from 1924, and some printed ephemera from St Dominic's Press, record her contact with Gill, together with this inscription cut in Beer stone." From the limitation page: "185 copies of this book have been… Read More