Sonnets 1960 – 1963 No. 84 of 100 copies Signed by Thomas Shapcott the third book of Officina Donagheana with two letterpress printed broadsides relating to Brian Donaghey’s private press

Shapcott, Thomas W.

$75.00

Publisher: Officina Donagheana
Place Published: Brisbane
Edition: Signed Limited Edition
Date Published: 1964
Size: 8vo

Sequence of 31 sonnets by Tom Shapcott, most previously published, but here in a collected edition, being No. 84 of 100 copies (signed/numbered to colophon) – letterpress printed at the Officina Donagheana (the private press of Brian S Donaghey); included are two broadsides relating to publications of the press, which was in operation for only three years 1964-1967 (source: David Bolton’s online page Private Presses in Australia); half light-blue cloth, with textured cream sides; heavy tanning to endpapers, rippling to front endpaper, o.w. Very Good throughout (note: the letterpress is not the sharpest for some poems, showing a little uneveness/fading, and smudges); boards rubbed and foxed, sunned to spine, wear and loss of titling to spine.