The Mountains by Thomas, R.S - 1968

New York: Chilmark Press, Inc, 1968. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. PIPER John 1903-1992. STONE Reynolds 1909-1979.. The best RS Thomas Private Press Title? In quarter green morocco over blue cloth, some gilt tooling. Spine, gilt titles. Internally, printed endpapers, half title, frontis, tp in black & gold inks, [4], 5-42 pp, [4], [1], [1], 20 pls, t.e.g., remainder uncut. This is the third of the Clover Hill Editions of the Chilmark Press. The edition consists of 350 copies as follows: 110 copies numbered I-CX, signed by the author, artist and engraver, and with an extra set of the ten engravings - such as this. Housed in its custom made slip case. Designed & Printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, bound at the Cambridge University Press. 10 Wood engravings by Reynolds Stone + the extra 10 tipped in, book label to fpd (Pamela Lister), faint remains of bookplate to fpd. (304*228 mm). Title continues: Illustrated… Read More

Chilmark Press, New York., 1968. First edition. Quarto. pp 48 + extra set of engravings. Ten line poem and fifteen-page prose piece by R.S. Thomas. Three page Descriptive Note by John Piper, who also provides two pages of notes on the engravings. Ten wood-engravings by Reynolds Stone from drawings by John Piper. The endpapers appear to be a blow-up of one of the engravings, ''Cwm Graianog''. Designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, on Wookey Hole Mill mould-made paper. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in quarter dark blue morocco with cloth sides; top edge gilt.One of 110 numbered copies signed by the author, artist and engraver, and with an extra set of the ten engravings.''Just after the Second World War, John Piper and Reynolds Stone, both enthusiasts of nineteenth century topographical guidebooks, decided to produce a modern equivalent, to illustrate the mountains of Snowdonia. They used wood-engravings, both as a… Read More