Inky Parrot Press

The Wood Engravings of
FRANK MARTIN
A Selection of the Engravings and Cuts,
with a Complete Catalogue of Relief Prints and a Biographical Essay
by Hal Bishop, with a Forward by Victor Arwas
and an Afterword by the Artist

Previous Parrot Press 1998

The book has 268 engravings and cuts selected from Frank Martin's output of nearly 600 engravings. It is typeset by Charles Hall in Eric Gill`s Joanna and printed on 148gsm Mohawk paper by the Aldgate Press, 13 x 9 inches, 160 pages plus printed endpapers. Where a second colour was originally used, this has been reproduced and there are 14 pages with a second colour.
The book is produced in 4 different editions, all signed by Frank Martin and Hal Bishop and numbered:
280 copies, bound quarter-buckram with printed pattern paper boards to a design by Frank Martin
42 Special copies, bound quarter-leather, with blocked woodcut on paper boards, and 4 hitherto unpublished wood engravings and cuts printed by David Esslemont, signed and numbered in a folder, all contained in a slipcase
All editions are out of print.

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