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A selection of our antiquarian books for sale England’s Constable. DARRACOTT (Joseph).
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England’s Constable
England’s Constable

England’s Constable. DARRACOTT (Joseph).

£750.00

England’s Constable. The Life and Letters of John Constable.

Colour frontispiece and colour and black and white illustrations throughout.

First Edition. 8vo. [238 x 158 x 20 mm]. 143, [1] pp. Bound by Jeanette Koch in 2005 (signed and dated inside in the rear cover) in natural calf with resist dyeing, each cover with seven overlaid goatskin panels of different shapes with resist dyed designs evocative of Constable's paintings, smooth goatskin spine with resist dyeing, painted endleaves, stained edges. Contained within a grey cloth drop-over box.
London: The Folio Society, 1985.

Jeanette Koch was born in 1947 and worked as an arts administrator and theatre programme publisher. Between 1992 and 1995 she studied bookbinding part time at The City Literary Institute under Sally Lou Smith, Jenni Grey and Flora Ginn. She then spent two years receiving private tuition from Romilly Saumarez Smith and was a Licentiate of Designer Bookbinders. She is now a tireless exhibition organiser, editor and ambassador for Designer Bookbinders.

Stock no. ebc4369

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England’s Constable. The Life and Letters of John Constable.

Colour frontispiece and colour and black and white illustrations throughout.

First Edition. 8vo. [238 x 158 x 20 mm]. 143, [1] pp. Bound by Jeanette Koch in 2005 (signed and dated inside in the rear cover) in natural calf with resist dyeing, each cover with seven overlaid goatskin panels of different shapes with resist dyed designs evocative of Constable's paintings, smooth goatskin spine with resist dyeing, painted endleaves, stained edges. Contained within a grey cloth drop-over box.
London: The Folio Society, 1985.

Jeanette Koch was born in 1947 and worked as an arts administrator and theatre programme publisher. Between 1992 and 1995 she studied bookbinding part time at The City Literary Institute under Sally Lou Smith, Jenni Grey and Flora Ginn. She then spent two years receiving private tuition from Romilly Saumarez Smith and was a Licentiate of Designer Bookbinders. She is now a tireless exhibition organiser, editor and ambassador for Designer Bookbinders.

Stock no. ebc4369

England’s Constable. The Life and Letters of John Constable.

Colour frontispiece and colour and black and white illustrations throughout.

First Edition. 8vo. [238 x 158 x 20 mm]. 143, [1] pp. Bound by Jeanette Koch in 2005 (signed and dated inside in the rear cover) in natural calf with resist dyeing, each cover with seven overlaid goatskin panels of different shapes with resist dyed designs evocative of Constable's paintings, smooth goatskin spine with resist dyeing, painted endleaves, stained edges. Contained within a grey cloth drop-over box.
London: The Folio Society, 1985.

Jeanette Koch was born in 1947 and worked as an arts administrator and theatre programme publisher. Between 1992 and 1995 she studied bookbinding part time at The City Literary Institute under Sally Lou Smith, Jenni Grey and Flora Ginn. She then spent two years receiving private tuition from Romilly Saumarez Smith and was a Licentiate of Designer Bookbinders. She is now a tireless exhibition organiser, editor and ambassador for Designer Bookbinders.

Stock no. ebc4369

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