£75
FIRST EDITION, NO. 33 OF 280 COPIES, 4to, pp. [30]. Colour illustrations throughout text. Original quarter yellow cloth, boards covered in Larroque hand-made paper, front board lettered in gilt, black Canson endpapers. Tiny dent near head of spine. This copy numbered 33 in manuscript to colophon.
The limited edition of a series of poems and pastel drawings by poet and painter Adrian Henri (1932-2000). Printed by The Old School Press in Bath as part of their first series dedicated to publishing new work by contemporary poets, the poems here were originally commissioned by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and set to music by Richard Gordon-Smith to tell the story of his grandfather who was lost at sea.
Henri worked on the drawings to accompany the poems for this edition while in hospital, and they became the last artworks he produced.
