Liquor & Literature.

(Reading Room Press.) ARDIZZONE (Edward)

Liquor & Literature.

Letters to John Lewis.

Description: FIRST EDITION, 82/150 COPIES printed on JPP archival dull white inlay paper, title-page printed in red and black, Ardizzone illustrations (for Harveys Wine Lists 1962-63) throughout with a double-spread tipped-in illustration ('Wine-tasters at Restells') colour-printed by Adrian Lack at the Senecio Press, title-page printed in red and black, pp. [33], 8vo, original quarter red cloth with boards of patterned paper created by Paul Kershaw using an Ardizzone design, backstrip lettered in gilt, fine

Publication Details: Quenington, Reading Room Press, 2018

Notes: The text largely consisting of the artist's correspondence with the Lists' designer, John Lewis - with a Preface by Alan Powers, and a contemporary article on Ardizzone's interest in wine with a note about the Bonhams sale of Harveys Wine Museum in 2003 at the rear.

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