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Creator:
Morgan, Gwenda, 1908–
Title(s):
The diary of a land girl, 1939-1945 / Gwenda Morgan ; illustrated with her wood-engravings.
Published/Created:
Risbury, Herefordshire : Whittington Press, [2002]
©2002.
Physical Description:
[6], ix-xii, [4], 151, [3] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NE1147.6.M6 A2 2002+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Peter Stansky, Yale BA 1953
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Author's name at head of title.
Includes bibliographical references (page 151).
"This edition of 300 copies is set in 12-point Fournier and printed at Whittington from the thirty-one original engravings on Zerkall mould-made paper. 50 copies are half-bound in Oasis leather and contain proofs of a selection of the engravings. Bound by the Fine Bindery. July 2002."--Colophon.
In slipcase, as issued.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 6 of 300, one of 50 copies half bound in Oasis leather and containing proofs of a selection of the engravings. In publisher's original slipcase.
Subject Terms:
Morgan, Gwenda, 1908–
Women wood-engravers -- England -- Biography.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings.
Typefaces (Type evidence)
Diaries.
Diaries.
Contributors:
Whittington Press, publisher.
Papierfabrik Zerkall Renker & Söhne, papermaker.
Fine Bindery (Firm), binder.
Jerome, Peter.
Macgregor, Miriam.
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  • Gwenda Morgan and her Petworth / by Peter Jerome
  • The diary of a land-girl
  • Gwenda Morgan, engraver / by Miriam Macgregor
  • Books illustrated by Gwenda Morgan.
  • The "selection of engravings" included with 50 copies comprises: Summer Flowers
  • Midnight madness
  • Willingly to School
  • Fittleworth
  • Nursery Rhymes
  • Nativity
  • Robert Herrick, 'His Grange'
  • From the hills to the sea.

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