ARBRE PATRIARCHE PATRIARCH TREE.
Thirty poems by Raissa Maritain.
- Worcester, England: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1965.
- 4to.
- full leather, five raised bands, Japanese endpapers, cloth slipcase with leather fore-edge, top edge gilt, slipcase
- xxii, 81, (7); iii, 23 pages
Price: $3,500.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 137290
Limited to 550 copies, of which this is one of 500 numbered copies. This copy has been rebound in full crushed brown morocco by Bernard Middleton for the exhibition "Stanbrook Abbey Press & Sir Sydney Cockerell: A Centenary Exhibition" in 1977. Borders in gilt, black, and blind on front and rear boards, gilt title on spine in second compartment, gilt fleurons on spine and date in gilt at tail of spine. Leather turn-ins with gilt ornamentation. Prospectus loosely inserted, with an A.L.s. by Dame Hildelith Cumming. In fine condition with a near fine slipcase. Printed on Barcham Green 'Eltham' handmade paper. Translated into the English by a Benedictine of Stanbrook. Table of contents, preface by Robert Speaight. Tipped-in portrait of the author lithographed by W.S. Cowell. Title devices by Margaret Adams. Text in English and French.
Also included is the exhibition catalogue titled Stanbrook Abbey Press & Sir Sydney Cockerell: A Centenary Exhibition.