[Ching, Raymond] "Raymond Ching the Bird Paintings, watercol...

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[Ching, Raymond] "Raymond Ching the Bird Paintings, watercolours and pencil drawings/1969 to 1975", text by David Snow, A H Chisholm and M F Soper, Collins, the Tryon Gallery, no.337 of a limited edition of 360 copies numbered and signed by the artist, each copy contains a special frontis piece entitled 'Kingfisher Taken from a Watercolour Painted by the Artist in 1975" and each copy includes a signed print of 'Fledgling Owl' from the collection of the artist and available only in editions no.1-360, black and white and colour plates throughout, pictorial ep showing bird feathers, full brown crushed morocco with gilt titles to the backstrip, a.e.g. within its original card slip case and a silk ribbon to retrieve the book from the slip case which has a leather pastedown with gilt initials to the front board, 48cm x 34cm,  binding by Zaehnsdorf
  with another copy published by Collins 1978, colour plates, buckram boards with gilt titles to backstrip, dust wrapper within a pictorial slip case, 48cm x 33.5cm (2)