A Musical Eye, The Visual World of Britten and Pears, 2012
168 pages plus printed endpapers, 310 x 242mm, edition of 650 standard copies and 48 specials. Typeset in Breughel printed on 150gsm Stow Book White and bound with printed covers and cloth spine by Ludlow Bookbinders.

The special edition has two new etchings by Keith Grant (shown below), numbered and signed with a special essay on Keith Grant, bound quarter leather and contained in a slipcase.

The first book to focus on the importance of art and design in the lives of composer Benjamin Britten and tenor Peter Pears. Edited by Judith Legrove, Introduction by Colin Matthews and Chapters by David Crilly, Caroline Harding, Paul Kildea, Judith Legrove, Julian Potter, Alan Powers, Jane Pritchard and T. G. Rosenthal.

Standard Edition £98 (plus P&P and insurance)

Special Edition £346 (plus P&P and insurance)

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 2011
Lewis Carroll with illustrations by John Vernon Lord
144 pages, 310 x 195mm, bound by Ludlow Bookbinders. 320 standard copies with cloth spine, signed and numbered; 98 special copies, bound quarter leather with a separate folder containing four signed giclée prints and an illustrated bibliography titled Lord’s List detailing 58 other works by John Vernon Lord, all contained in a slipcase.

This is John Vernon Lord’s third book illustrating the works of Lewis Carroll. It has more than 100 illustrations, most in colour, including 12 full-page and one double-page, plus chess board endpapers. Foreword by Selwyn Goodacre, a leading expert on Lewis Carroll, and afterword by the artist.

Standard Edition £98 (plus P&P and insurance)

Special Edition £320 (plus P&P and insurance)

Piper in Print, 2010
Books, Periodicals & Ephemera
164 pages, 310 x 230mm, printed on Mohawk cool white 148gsm, edition of 384 standard copies, casebound, signed and numbered. 96 special copies, bound quarter leather, with a folder containing facsimiles of rare examples of Piper ephemera including posters and booklets, the whole contained in a slipcase.

Five Piper experts explore the range and diversity of John Piper’s work in formats that were usually considered ‘lesser arts’. Piper is best known as a topographical painter and print maker, but he worked as a designer in many different disciplines: stage scenery and costumes; stained glass; textiles and pottery; as well as book illustration. Articles by Alan Powers, Hugh Fowler-Wright, David Heathcote, Annamarie Stapleton and Rigby Graham are illustrated with many rarely seen images.

Standard Edition £96 (plus P&P and insurance)

Special Edition £296 (plus P&P and insurance)

Les Très Riches Heures de Mrs Mole, 2011
118 pages plus printed endpapers, 270 x 190mm, printed on Lambeth cartridge paper by the Senecio Press in Oxfordshire bound in suede-type cloth with an indented title label, a continental-style spine in leather by Ludlow Bookbinders and presented in a slipcase, edition of 196.

Forty-seven drawing/paintings by Ronald Searle made for his wife Monica, each time she underwent chemotherapy. Introduction by Ronald Searle, afterword by Monica – who have each signed all 196 copies in the edition.

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 2009
Lewis Carroll with illustrations by John Vernon Lord
104 pages, 310 x 195mm, printed on Mohawk Vellum Cool White paper, cloth bound by Chris Hicks with printed endpapers and dustwrapper. Edition of 280. This copy signed but out of series.

The second (after ‘The Hunting of the Snark’) of John Vernon Lord’s illustrated editions of works by Lewis Carroll. Containing 86 illustrations, most in colour, it has at least one illustration on every double page spread. Everything said by Alice is printed in blue, but Alice herself makes only one appearance, at the very end.

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Artists' Choice Editions, London & Oxford, England