Lot 55 , Adams, Richard. Lawrence, John. (illustrator). Watership Down. First illustrated edition, de luxe, limited to only 250 numbered copies, double-signed by the both author and illustrator - copy #241 with fore-edge painting

° Adams, Richard. Lawrence, John. (illustrator). Watership Down. First illustrated edition, de luxe, limited to only 250 numbered copies, double-signed by the both author and illustrator - copy #241 with fore-edge painting by Noble and original watercolour by John Lawrence signed with initials. profusely illustrated with marginal vignettes, full and half-page line drawings, tinted illustrations and coloured plates after watercolours, all by John Lawrence, with a large fold-out coloured map at rear. Large 8vo. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, in green morocco, spine with raised bands lettered in gilt rabbits and corn in compartments, upper cover stamped in gilt with a design of rabbits after John Lawrence, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, by preserved in marbled board slipcase. London; Penguin Books/Kestrel Books. 1976.
£1,200-1,500

Condition:
pp. orig. watercolour, frontis, iv, dedication, [v-vi], vii-x, [xi-xvii], 18-550. spine slightly faded.