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  • "Anthony Baker started his publishing career with [a] small collection of epitaphs, distributed free to friends and acquaintances as a Christmas greeting. He had gathered the contents from churches and graveyards across his home county of Somerset, [as the] first of a series of six...southern county collections, from Devon to Kent. In practice only two more followed; Six Dorset Epitaphs and Six Hampshire Epitaphs. The presswork of the two later collections was far from the high standard which Anthony wished ...so he decided they were best disowned... He rather counts the whole 'Epitaphs' series as a false start." [ASKHAM, Mark. The Gruffyground Press. A Bibliography. Chestnut Editions, 2024 pp.13]
    [SMITH, Richard Shirley]
    Six Hampshire Epitaphs

    Sidcot Anthony Baker, The Gruffyground Press 1977

    8pp. B/w woodcuts by Richard Shirley Smith. 160 mm × 237 mm. 110 copies produced. Printed in black in Bell roman and italic on pale blue Portals mould-made laid paper. Bound in an unprinted French-folded dark blue Japanese Mingei handmade laid paper cover. Very good. Paper wraps a little sun bleached. Very scarce to find a copy of this which is bound, after publisher Anthony Baker shunned the publication for its poor printing quality. Most of the copies of this publication remain uncollated, unfolded sheets, without covers.

    Stock ID: 22972
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