LONGLEY, Michael. The Lake Without a Name. Poems of Mayo. Wood engravings by Jeffrey Morgan (A UNIQUE COLLABORATION LIMITED TO 75 SIGNED COPIES)

Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2005. Super royal octavo. First edition. pp. [xvi], 52, [2]. Quarter levant crushed morocco on grass paper boards. Edition limited to 275 numbered copies [No. 55] signed by the author and illustrator. With an additional poem and wood engraving specially commissioned for the first 75 copies. Loosely inserted is a prospectus and flier. A fine copy in lined slipcase. Rare in quarter leather.
The fine press limited edition of 'The Lake Without a Name' consists of 275 signed and numbered copies. It is printed on 170 gsm mould-made Zerkall paper with a deckle edge. The twenty-nine wood engravings were fashioned on endgrain boxwood supplied by blockmaker Chris Daunt of Gateshead.
The edition is printed letterpress at Libanus Press, Marlborough, in Wiltshire, and is quarter-bound with Frogmore Mill grass paper boards and Ratchford Colorado Amazon cloth, presented in a lined slipcase with a bow edge.
The Lake Without a Name is the fruit of an enduring friendship between poet and artist, a unique collaboration between two extraordinary craftsmen. A most attractive book.

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