[Press of the Woolly Whale] First Days of the Village Press Other With an introduction and notes

With an introduction and notes by Austin Dobson

Illustrated with tipped in portraits

The keepsakes are from the years 1940

He apparently made watercolours for an edition of Octave Mirbeau's Le Journal d'une femme de chambre

and tooled in the style of Roger Payne

[Press of the Woolly Whale] First Days of the Village Press Other With an introduction and notesRansom, Will. The First Days of the Village Press: Extracts from the Diary of Will Ransom, MCMIII. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, privately printed, [1937]. [One hundred copies printed]. First edition. [12]pp. Title page vignette. Original black card wrappers with blind embossed Village Press crest to upper cover, sewn. Ransom's account of working with Frederic and Bertha Goudy in the spring and summer of 1903. Measures approx. 6. 5" x 9. 25".