The Wind in the Willows

Available for sale: £2,400 plus postage

By Kenneth Graham. Illustrated by Judy White, some hand coloured. Bound by Glenn Malkin (2023)
Published by Hand and Eye Press (London, 2021). Letterpress printed on Bockingford paper
Numbered Edition, limited to 45 copies. This is an un-numbered artists proof copy, signed by the artist. Fully bound in Pentland goat leather with blind tooling, impressed leather texture, an airbrushed background and applied acrylic colour. There are hand-sewn double silk endbands and the edges decorated with sprinkled acrylic and gold leaf. Full leather doublure and pastepaper endpapers. Presented in a suede lined bespoke wooden box with decorative leather title panel to the lid.
The design is an abstracted view of the riverside upon which much of the storyline is based. The wild wood is in the background with weasel eyes peering maliciously out!
Leather doublures and paste paper endpapers
Signed limitation page
Sprinkled edges and silk endbands