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The Good Wine.

Thetford, Vermont: Cricket Press, 1965. 4to, burlap cloth with paper title on cover and paper title “Nine Wine Labels” on spine. 23 pp. with 9 wood engravings on facing text. Title and text printed entirely in red. Colophon: “22 copies of this book were designed and executed by Gillian Tyler at the Cricket Press in Thetford, Vermont / copy 1.” CONDITION: Very good, slight loss to corner of spine label.

The text of John 2, in which the water that Jesus turned into wine is brought to the wedding feast, with wood engravings of animals opposite each of nine passages. Each illustration is loosely intended as a “wine label” and all are captioned accordingly, e.g, “elderberry flower,” “dandelion,” “fox grape,” etc.

Item #4097

Price: $500.00