Florin Press - Leo Wyatt's Little Book of Alphabets. With an Introduction by Michael Taylor.

Leo Wyatt's Little Book of Alphabets. With an Introduction by Michael Taylor. 8vo, pp.[xii],12 leaves (rectos only), colophon, Florin Press, Biddenden, Kent, 1985.

Number 10 of 150 copies printed on Barcham Green paper (with Florin Press watermark) initialled by the printer. Text set in Janson Antiqua. Title-page and 12 wood-engraved alphabets by Leo Wyatt, each done in a different colour, using inks ground by hand, press device by Simon Brett. Quarter magenta leather, titled in gilt down the spine, parchment-covered boards with leather label. A fine copy in its slipcase.

These superb blocks were some of the last cut by this master engraver before his death in 1981. They were reprinted by the Press in 1988. Provenance: Graham Williams "re-inherited" this copy. The colophon is inscribed to his mother-in law "for Miriam [Gabo], I'm glad you like the colours. Love Graham."