Penmiel Press - Newgas (Edgar). Portrait Gallery.

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Edgar Newgas. Portrait Gallery: Verse for Children and Animal Lovers.. Illustrations by C.B. Poulteney. 8vo, 79p, colophon, 20cm, (Edward Burrett) Pemiel Press, Esher, Surrey, 1966.

Typeset in Monotype Bembo. This, one of a very few copies specially bound in full leather and titled and ruled in gilt. 8 illustrations in line. Photocopy of a letter, 15.xi.1966 from James Orr, Buckingham Palace, thanking the author for the gift of a copy to the Duke of Edinburgh. Fine condition.

One of the earliest books with the Penmiel imprint, designed rather that printed by Edward Burrett.

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