Song of the scythe, Bruce Mawdesley ; wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor

Resource Information

The instance Song of the scythe, Bruce Mawdesley ; wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.

Label

Song of the scythe, Bruce Mawdesley ; wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor

Statement of responsibility

Bruce Mawdesley ; wood-engravings by Miriam Macgregor

Instantiates

• Song of the scythe

Publication

• Westbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, Plum Tree Press, 1982

Note

• Limited ed. of 40 copies
• "The author worked at Whittington Press on and off for a year or so, mending the walls, building a Cotswold stone extension to the Press building ... and scything the grass. The portraits of the scyther in the book are recognisably Bruce." From the bibliography describing the Whittington Press' later publication (in 1983): Butcher, D. Whittington Press bib., 1982-93, [entry] 67

Dimensions

26 cm.

Extent

[11] p.

Note

• Spec. Coll. copy 1-2 (with class no.Z233): c.1: 25/40, signed by author and illustrator on colophon, wrappers, illustrated cream-colored wrappers; c.2: no.27/40, signed by author and illustrator on colophon, green wrappers.
• Spec. Coll. copy 1-2 (with class no.SB695): c.1: no.18/40, illustrated cream-colored wrappers; c.2: no.12/40, green wrappers, with artist correspondence (2 leaves, Nov.23) re the variant cover designs laid in. Gift of the estate of James Davis, 2001.

Other physical details

ill.

Record ID

4904228

System control number

• (OCoLC)53936299
• ucoclc53936299