Threoteotha Press - Selected pastimes, a collection of prints and notes, edited by A. Peter Fletton.

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Selected pastimes, a collection of prints and notes, edited by A. Peter Fletton. With 26 illustrations of various sorts by thirteen artists. 4to, 131pp, including 40 pages of typewritten text, 24cm, Threoteotha Press, Leicester, 1974.

Handset in Caslon Old Face, Walbaum and Bembo by Patricia Green and printed by Mary Cook and Rigby Graham. One of 15 copies printed in black (the illustrations in various colours) on various white and coloured papers on an Adana flatbed hand-press and various other presses. Drilled binding by Trevor Hickman, blind-blocked on the spine, with laminated paper-covered boards (some laminate peeled away), printed with a monotype by Rigby Graham. Without marks of ownership, but Rigby Graham's copy. Of legendary scarcity. Very good to fine condition.

Contents: Round the Bend, by Geoffrey Kelham; Mountain Greenery, by Phil Hubbard; A Bitter Decision, by Bob Dexter; Cricket, by Barry Rabjohn; Hell for Leather, by Bruce Davies; The Strange World of the Private Printer, by Rigby Graham; Boats and boating, by Peter Fletton; Canoeing, by Andrew Tyler; Old Bridges, by Terence Penery; First Stage of Ruin, by Brian Webster, Wine Glasses, by Patricia Abraham; Motor Racing, by Tom Knight.

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