Britten's Aldeburgh
By: John Craig ; with eighty-one engravings & three two-colour linocuts by the author.
Contributors: Whittington Press.; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Whittington Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Leominster, Herefordshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 67
Subjects: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Aldeburgh.; Composers -- Homes and haunts -- England -- Aldeburgh.; Aldeburgh (England) -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Describes in a sequence of carefully laid out double-page spreads consisting of wood-engravings, text, and occasionally music, the walks taken in and around Aldburgh by Benjamin Britten while he was composing.
Notes: "[An] edition of 440 copies ... 352 copies are half-bound by The Fine Bindery in buckram with an enlarged linocut by John Craig; 60 copies are similarly bound in Oasis leather with a portfolio of a selection of the engravings; and 28 copies are bound by James Brockman to a design by himself and John Craig, with a portfolio of the engravings"--Colophon.
Issued in a slipcase.
LC has copy no. 219, signed by the author.