"My Favorite Purchase from George Sims" (1998)

Title: "My Favorite Purchase from George Sims"

Subtitle: From Nine Friends on his 75th Birthday, 3 August 1998

David Holmes (Compiled by)

(Book) Edition of 20 copies. 15 pages. ~25.0 cm (height).

Publication: 1998 [Loanhead].

Typeface: Bembo

Keywords: Anthology, Birthday celebration

Edition variants

Standard edition, in 20 copies.

Printed on Teton paper, and sewn in marbled wrappers with printed paper label.

Copies:

National Library of Scotland.
University of Oxford.
Indiana University Library.
University of Pennsylvania Libraries.

Halliwell ref.: B100

Special edition, out-of-series, in 3 copies.

Printed on Amatruda Amalfi paper, and sewn in marbled wrappers with printed paper label.
Additional hand-written colophon.

The featured copy carries Sims' bookplate, designed by Will Carter of Rampant Lions Press. According to David Chambers, "Will Carter's Booklabels" (The Private Library, vol 2:2, Summer 1999), the bookplate was designed in 1982 and printed the following year "in rust, red or blue".

Special edition, out-of-series, title page

Special edition, out-of-series, frontispiece

Special edition, out-of-series, page sample

Special edition, out-of-series, colophon page

Special edition, out-of-series, bookplate

Halliwell ref.: B100a

Section

Privately commissioned work

References

Steven Halliwell, "Fifty Years of Hand Printing - A Bibliography of the Tragara Press", Rivendale Press, 2005, B100, p.105.