Snaffles - Charles Johnson Payne: Being a Selection of His Hunting and Racing Prints. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION IN CLAM SHELL BOX

Snaffles. Being a Selection of his Hunting and Racing Prints. Compiled by: Mark Flower. Text by: Donald Crawford. Research by: Caroline Juler. 

Published by Millwood Press, Wellington , 1983. 
Limited edition, no. 224/750. SIGNED by the publisher (Jim Siers.) 

Fully illustrated with 82 tipped-in colour plates. 224pp. Printed on 170gsm muse deluxe paper by the Kyodo Printing Company, Tokyo. The plates were printed on 120gsm art paper and tipped-in by hand (the plates were destroyed after printing). 
Each book was assembled by hand and bound in quarter genuine hand-tooled maroon leather with finest quality maroon linen cloth boards and hand-made Japanese paper for the end papers and box lining. Housed in the matching cloth clam-shell box.
Catalogue of Snaffles' works at rear. 

Binding firm, cloth boards have a little speckled fading, minor marks, otherwise excellent with no owner inscriptions.
Box is in good condition but rubbed, faded and marked, paper title label to lid is scratched.

ALL PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL BOOK. 

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