A View of the Cotswolds.

(Whittington Press.) SMITH (Edwin, Photographer)

A View of the Cotswolds.

With essays, commentaries, & a checklist by Shawn Kholucy, Ian Mackenzie-Kerr, Alan Powers, George Ramsden, Edwin Smith, Veronica Watts, and Rory Young.

Description: III/70 COPIES (from an edition of 350 copies) printed on Bugra-Bütten mould-made tan paper, frontispiece and 31 photographic plates (including 1 double-spread), title-page printed in black and red, these special copies with a folder of cloth and board containing two prints from the original negatives of photographs used in the book, pp. [vi], 50, folio, original half black morocco, tan boards patterned with an engraving by Smith, backstrip lettered in silver, edges untrimmed, bookplate to flyleaf, the book and additional portfolio together in cloth and board slipcase, fine

Publication Details: Risbury, 2005

Notes: A wonderful record of the mature work of a very fine photographer - lauded by Betjeman and Beaton - conceived alongside his widow and collaborator, Olive Cook.This copy with the additional signature of its printer, John Randle, to the colophon.

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Price: £425

Subject: Private Press

Published Date: 2005

Stock Number: 74532

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