One of 42 sets with signed prints
SEARLE, Ronald (illustrator). Watteau Revisited & More Scraps. Church Hanborough, Oxford. Inky Parrot Press. 2008 Signed

Royal 8vo.; 2 volumes and accompanying tan card chemise; both volumes bound in black leather-backed royal blue and turquoise pictorial paper-covered boards, spines gilt, pictorial endpapers, in original oatmeal hessian slipcase with onlaid pictorial panels to sides; pp. [42]; [66], printed on fine Zerkall mould-made paper; illustrated throughout both volumes in line; “Scraps” printed in black and sang-de-boeuf; fine copies without inscriptions in fine slipcase which also houses the wallet containing 6 individual Searle prints (three from each of the two volumes), each attractively handcoloured by Annie Newnham under the artist’s supervision, and each double-signed by both Newnham and Searle.

First editions, one of only 42 Special sets (out of a total limitation of 246), here complete with the suite of signed prints and with the loosely inserted colour-printed flyer for the publication.

The Watteau preparatory drawings were inspired by an important exhibition of the artist in Parks in 1977 to create a Watteau medallion for the French mint.  The drawings were displaye alongside the eighteenth century artworks in the Hotel de la Monnaie at the time but went unpublished and have not been viewed before this publication.

“More Scraps” assembles a host of previously unpublished drawings together with a selection of reviews and articles.