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Folio Society: The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Graham; Charles van Sandwyk, illus. The Special Centenary Limited Edition published by The Folio Society in London. 2008. Strictly limited to 1,000 numbered copies. The book is handbound in white quarter vellum, blocked on the spine in 22-carat gold, with vellum tips and paper sides blocked in three shades of metallic foil. Each copy contains a limitation spread with a tipped-in etching, hand-printed under the artist's supervision and signed by him with the limitation number, of which this is 217. Presented in the fine publisher's original cloth-bound solander box with gilt lettered title label

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27th May 26 at 10am BST