Whinney, Margaret. Photographs by Edward Leigh. (Brooke Crutchley, Peter Bicknell).

GRINLING GIBBONS IN CAMBRIDGE.

Cambridge: Privately Printed at the University Press, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. (27) pp., b/w photographs throughout; 4to, red cloth with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Very good, quite clean and unworn. Item #21838

A celebration of the work of sculptor and wood carver Grinling Gibbons (1648-1721) and his legacy in Cambridge. Edition of 250 copies "Printed for Presentation by the University Printer to his Friends in Printing & Publishing, Christmas, 1948." This copy inscribed by University Printer Brooke Crutchley to architect, professor, and mountaineer Peter Bicknell (1907-1995): "This one for Peter Bicknell. (signed) Brooke Crutchley."

Price: $150.00