Whittington Press.- , Marlborough Litany (The), one of 16 out-of-series copies bound by James Brockman, Risbury, 1998.
Whittington Press.- Marlborough Litany (The), number xvi of 16 out-of-series copies bound by James Brockman, text in red, blue and black, original vellum-backed paste-paper boards with red morocco tips, paper label to upper cover, uncut, board slip-case (slightly rubbed at one corner), 4to, Risbury, Whittington Press, 1998.
⁂ The Litany of General Supplication was printed at the Marlborough College Press in 1949 in an edition of 70 copies. As the printer Henry Ball explains in his introduction 16 sets of loose sheets were discovered in a drawer many years later and John Randle of the Whittington Press, an ex-Marlborough printer himself, undertook to issue these. The title-pages to 11 of the sets and all the introductory pages were printed by Randle at the Whittington Press. One of the scarcest Whittington items as only 12 of the 16 copies were offered for sale.
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Whittington Press.- Marlborough Litany (The), number xvi of 16 out-of-series copies bound by James Brockman, text in red, blue and black, original vellum-backed paste-paper boards with red morocco tips, paper label to upper cover, uncut, board slip-case (slightly rubbed at one corner), 4to, Risbury, Whittington Press, 1998.
⁂ The Litany of General Supplication was printed at the Marlborough College Press in 1949 in an edition of 70 copies. As the printer Henry Ball explains in his introduction 16 sets of loose sheets were discovered in a drawer many years later and John Randle of the Whittington Press, an ex-Marlborough printer himself, undertook to issue these. The title-pages to 11 of the sets and all the introductory pages were printed by Randle at the Whittington Press. One of the scarcest Whittington items as only 12 of the 16 copies were offered for sale.
