The Idyll Wheel
Canberra: Officina Brindabella, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover : 36 pp : 7 wood engravings by Rosalind Atkins : number 72 of 290 copies : SIGNED by author : quarter leather with paper sides over boards : handmade endpapers of blady-grass fibre : mylar wrapper. Signed handwritten note from Alec Bolton (printer) inserted. Pin prick spot to paper label and another to last leaf. Sprinkle of spots to top edge near spine. [A Licence to Print, 21]. Fine. Item #15950
Bolton recalls, ''This too was a very popular book, which sold out quickly. I imported a lovely German mould-made paper, Zerkall, which went well with the blady-grass endpapers that Katherine Nix made. When it was new the paper smelt of the bush, which many people commented on. I don't like breaking lines in setting poetry, which was a real challenge with this work. To a certain extent the long length of the lines dictated the format.'' (A Licence to Print, p 30).
Price: $500.00