Printed binding
Harrison Weir
[1886]
A binding made up of printed glossy paper pasted onto cardboard.
10 x 8½ inches
Weir wrote and illustrated the text, as well as providing an original design for the front cover. The engraver is once again Edmund Evans, who printed Weir’s designs used coloured wood-blocks.
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Photograph and text by Simon Cooke