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Creator:
Lee, Brian North
Title(s):
Bookplates by Richard Shirley Smith / Brian North Lee.
Published/Created:
Upper Denby [England] : Fleece Press, 2006.
Physical Description:
101 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
MSS 17 Moss no. 8
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss
[Request]

Rare Books and Manuscripts
Z996.S645 L44 2006+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Bookplates by Richard Shirley Smith was begun in 2005 but completed during 2006."--Label mounted on front pastedown.
"There are 275 copies of this book, and it has been a pleasure to print some of the very best bookplates ever made. Of these, forty copies (thirty-two for sale) contain a chemise holding four proofs of drawn bookplates, signed by the artist.The paper is T.H. Saunders HP, the type Van Dijck set at Whittington by Peter Pugwash Sanderson, and the reproductions of the bookplates were printed by Smith Settle, who also bound the book."--Colophon.
"This lavish catalogue of Shirley Smith's bookplates produced through 2003 was one of North Lee's last publications."--Moss.
Moss, R.W. Richard Shirley Smith, 8
BAC: British Art Center MSS 17 Moss no. 8 copy is one of 32 copies with proofs of drawn bookplates (North Lee nos. 36, 40, 43, 44, 46, 52), signed and dated by Shirley Smith, laid in. Quarter bound in tan book cloth, boards covered in wood-grain paper; the clamshell box is covered in matching cloth lined with wood-grain paper. Note to Roger W. Moss from Simon Lawrence, The Fleece Press, laid in. Booklet "More Fleece Press Books for 2005" (printed in an edition limited to 1200 copies) also laid in. From the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith.
BAC: British Art Center Z996.S645 L44 2006 copy is one of 32 copies with proofs of drawn bookplates (North Lee nos. 36, 40, 43, 44, 46, 52), signed and dated by Shirley Smith, laid in. Quarter bound in tan book cloth, boards covered in wood-grain paper; the clamshell box is covered in matching cloth lined with wood-grain paper.
Subject Terms:
Bookplate designers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Bookplates, English.
Engravers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Fleece Press -- Publisher.
Shirley Smith, Richard.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 2006.
Publishers' advertisements -- 2005.
Contributors:
Moss, Roger W., 1940– former owner.
Shirley Smith, Richard, engraver.
Fleece Press.
Collection of Margaret and Neale Albert (Yale Center for British Art).
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