One of only 140 copies issued

Orwell, George ~ Animal Farm : Signed And Lined By The Printer / Publisher

St. James Park Press, London : 2022

The sole UK printing of this illustrated edition published by St. James Park Press, London in 2022. The BOOK is in Fine condition. 124 pages with 21 striking multi-colour linocut illustrations and chapter headers by artist Hugh Ribbans. Hand-sewn binding with a multi-coloured linocut wrap-around wrapper which is in Fine condition. Housed in the publisher's acrylic display case with removable spine label, as issued. Number '29' of only 140 copies issued signed by the artist to the limitation page. This copy has additionally been signed to the limitation page by the printer and publisher James Freemantle , who has also lined one of the iconic quotes from the text : 'All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others'. Printed by James Freemantle in Times Roman on Zerkall paper. ''Animal Farm, an anti-utopian satire by George Orwell, published in 1945. One of Orwell's finest works, it is a political fable based on the events of Russia's Bolshevik revolution and the betrayal of the cause by Joseph Stalin. The book concerns a group of barnyard animals who overthrow and chase off their exploitative human masters and set up an egalitarian society of their own. Eventually the animals' intelligent and power-loving leaders, the pigs, subvert the revolution. Concluding that 'all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others' (with its addendum to the animals' seventh commandment: 'All animals are equal'), the pigs form a dictatorship even more oppressive and heartless than that of their former human masters." (St. James Park Press website). The artist Hugh Ribbans. Hugh trained at Canterbury College of Art. Relief printmaking was his craft subject at college, particularly linocutting. He has exhibited at the Barbican Gallery, the National Theatre, the National Print Exhibition, the Printmakers Council Open, The Society of Wood Engravers, and the Society of Wildlife Artists. A striking production and sold out on release. The sixth book from the highly successful St James Park Press. Collectible.

BINDING: Wraps
CONDITION: Fine
JACKET: Fine