A Ribble Sketchbook

Written by Alfred Wainwright

£25.00

Book condition

This book is from new stock

Book details

Hardback:: 94 pages
Publisher:: Westmorland Gazette
Language:: English

Book description

**Publisher : Original publication by The Westmorland Gazette and printed by Titus Wilson & Son Ltd, Kendal : 1980**

…Part of a series of books, produced in a landscape format, containing A Wainwright’s pen-and-ink drawings, not only of the Lakeland he loved so well, but other areas of Britain that he visited….Seventy-Eight drawings….

Approx 9 inch by 7 inch in size

This is a hard to find book in this pristine condition….No price on endflap as from unopened packaged original stock…been stored in brown paper parcels

Important – NOW LIMITED NUMBER OF COPIES ….Should you wish to order more than one copy of this title please email us to check stock levels

“When Wainwright came to publish his first book it was privately through a local printer, as he could not face the prospect of finding a publisher; however, his friend Henry Marshall, Chief Librarian of Kendal and Westmorland, took charge of publicity and administration and his name appears as publisher on the early editions. This arrangement continued for the first editions of the next three books in the series, after which they were taken over by the local newspaper the Westmorland Gazette based in Kendal. Wainwright’s books were in turn taken over by Michael Joseph in the 1990s. When they ceased publication in 2003, the rights were bought by Frances Lincoln.”..Ref: 354