Dear Mercia / Jane Boulton

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2025.16.46

Description

Blue slipcase, with the edges dark blue cloth and front and back a lighter blue paper. Book is quarter cloth binding with the covers having vertical design of light blue, bronze, copper, and dark gray. Edges of the pages are untrimmed. Opposite full title is an image pasted in, which appears tucked into the back corner as a poster. 106p. Introduction by Clare Colvin. "The book details Paul Nash’s letters to childhood friend Mercia Oakley. Paul and Mercia first met as neighbours and Paul’s letters to her are an important record of his early development in both life and work; few groups of Nash’s letters from this period survive."

Collection

Howard Kistler

Dimensions

Height

29.5 cm

Width

20 cm

Parts

1 book, quarter cloth bound. 1 blue slipcase.

Book Details

Author

Paul Nash

Editor

Jane Boulton

Volume/Number/Issue

One of 250 for sale, unnumbered.

Publisher

The Fleece Press

Place Published

City

Netherton

Country

England

Date Published

3/1991

Printer

The Fleece Press

Place Printed

City

Netherton

Country

England

Date Printed

2/1991

Binding

Binding Type

Hollow Back

Binding Notes

Roundback, quarter-cloth.

Notes

Printed and published by Simon Lawrence. Copyright of the letters belongs to the Paul Nash Trust, of the introduction to Clare Colvin, and of the notes to Janet Boulton, all 1991. Colophon at back - 300 copies, 250 for sale. Bill Hughes set the text at Solo-Type in 12 and 11 point Baskerville, printed at The Fleece Press on Zerkall paper in February 1991. Smith Settle printed the illustrations and bound the book with paste paper by Clare Maziarczyk in New York.

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