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The Waste Land

Item date(s): 1961

T. S. Eliot
Philip Smith  - (bookbinding by)


Pages: 51pp
Size: 290mm
Binding: Designer binding; Solander box
Inscription: Signed by the poet

Sub-type: Designer binding

Place publication: London
Publisher: Faber & Faber

Additional notes:
Printed in Dante type by Giovanni Mardersteig on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni in Verona.

A solander box by Peter Carstens in three-quarter black leather with antique marbled papers.

"The greates poem in English; the greatest English designer binder; the greatest Letterpress printer".

Illustrated on page 27 of The Book: Art & Object by Philip Smith.

Ref: GB/1957



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