| Description | William Cowper, 'The Diverting History of John Gilpin' (Christmas 1952). Illustrated by Ronald Searle.
1600 copies printed and bound at The Chiswick Press, London for Sir Allen Lane and Richard Lane. The illustrations were originally made for a film in the 'Poet and Painter' series for the Festival of Britain. Wiggins Teape & Co. made the paper and Stephenson Blake & Co supplied the type originally cut by Fry's Bristol Letter Foundry. Includes signed Christmas card from Allen Lane. |