Marco's Animal Alphabet.
Oldham Incline Press Limited 2000
Unpaginated. Twenty-seven original linocuts by Enid Marx, hand coloured following a plan devised by Peter Allen. Bound in s blue cloth, with paper backed boards a design reconstructed from one of the patterned papers she created in the late 1920s for The Little Gallery in London. Fine copy in a slip case. 390 x 285mm. The linocuts published in this book were completed in 1979. Over the next few years, they appeared occasionally in exhibitions of her work, but a formal edition of the prints was never made, and they are appearing here, in their "proper" book format, for the first time. Linocuts printed on a heavy, acid-free paper, Fabriano Artistico, made from 100% cotton fibres and retaining their deckled fore-edge. Limited edition. No 18 of 145 standard copies that were for sale. Loosely inserted prospectus for the book and a note on headed paper from the Incline Press from Graham Moss explaining to subscribers that the book would be printed on his return from America.