Two Songs of ’57 The Black Bull Chapbooks No. 2

Being No. 2 in the Black Bull Chapbooks (devoted to little known aspects of Australiana, with focus on early colonial ballads) from The Rams Skull Press, this being No. 17 of a limited edition of 150 copies, hand set and printed on cream wove Goatskin Parchment by Ron Edwards, signed by Hugh Anderson and Ron Edwards; lyrics and notes to two songs attributed to Charles Thatcher, “Weston and His Clerk” and “The Gutter”, notes by Hugh Anderson, and with linocuts by Ron Edwards; the edition had two bindings, one in Slink (unborn calf skin), and one (presumably when the slink ran out) in plain limp wrappers with no titling; this copy is the plain limp wrappers; minor foxing to text block, o.w. Very Good; covers rubbed and with some foxing; The Rams Skull Press is the oldest privately owned publishing house in Australia, begun in 1950 and still family owned and in operation today.