Locks of Oxford Canal 1/43 copies w/extra illus

Heading: (Whittington Press)
Author: Craig, John, illustrator
Title: The Locks of the Oxford Canal: A Journey from Oxford to Coventry
Place Published: [Manor Farm, Andoversford, Gloucestershire]
Publisher:The Whittington Press
Date Published: [1984]
Description:

[10], xi, [48], [1] pp. Illustrated with 50 wood engravings by John Craig, with a folding chart in the back showing 3 side and 3 overhead views from woodcut drawings stamped in brown on blue paper; an extra suite of 12 wood-engraved plates by Craig inside a chemise folder; plus a frontispiece map showing the journey from Oxford to Coventry. 26.3x18.8 cm (10¼x7½"), special full red-brown Nigerian goatskin with a tan morocco pictorial inset cover label showing a black vignette, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; with an extra suite of 12 wood-engraved plates on hand-made paper placed inside a brown linen chemise; all housed in the publisher's brown linen slipcase with pictorial paper covers; bound by Woolnoughs. Copy No. XXVII of 43 hand-lettered copies in Roman numerals printed at the Whittington Press. First Edition.

Signed by the artist John Craig in the colophon. The extra suite of 12 plates each signed and dated 1984 by Craig in pencil with "AP" in the bottom right corner. Also, inscribed and signed by the printer on the title page to Art Stone.
Condition Report: Fine.