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Seventeen halftone metal printing blocks, with wooden backs, of illustrations by Edward Jeffrey to Sheila Hodgetts's series of 'Toby Twirl' children's books, with one of the plates signed in type by Jeffrey.

Author: 
Edward Jeffrey (1898-1978) [Sheila Hodgetts (b.1924), author of the 'Toby Twirl' series of children's books]
Publication details: 
Undated [between the late 1940s and early 1950s].
£495.00

Each of the seventeen metal halftone printing blocks is roughly 10 cm square, and nailed to a mahogany block (roughly 10 x 10 x 2 cm). Each carries a number, in the bottom left-hand corner when printed: 7, 8, 9, 15 (two), 16 (two), 25, 27, 36, 38 (two), 39, 54, 56, 59, 60. (Three of the numbers are duplicated, but the illustrations are all different.) The last block (60) has the signature 'e. jeffrey' in type at the head.

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Trade Catalogue giving numerous specimens of the firm's work. With pricelist.

Author: 
The City Rubber Stamp Co. ('Established 1878'), Snow Hill Buildings, Holborn Viaduct, London [Victorian Trade Catalogue]
Publication details: 
London: The City Rubber Stamp Co., Snow Hill Buildings, Holborn Viaduct, E.C. No date. [Circa 1890?]
£85.00

8vo (dimensions of leaf roughly 265 x 180 mm): twenty-four unpaginated pages on twelve leaves, with four pages in a bifolium inserted, and a price list printed on one side of a loose leaf. Unbound. Stitched as issued. Good, clean and tight, on lightly-aged paper with a little spotting to the outside pages.

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